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24 stouflvilk suntribune thursday march 302006 if ajyv db5jl- sy uwjswfsflf hi 1 a 111 bbs mb elina bagshaw cuts up pancakes for daughter katriina 3 at horton tree farms and sugar dorf last week children parents and staff of newmarket coop nursery school whitchurchstouffville sugarbush to learn about and taste of course maple syrup bush in van- went to the syrup marv nursery school children head to the sugarbush for a sweet and tasty field trip photography by sjoerd witteveen hp wffi adrian benedict 4 gets up close and personal with some of the good stuff syrup can be used to make hard and soft maple sugar maple butter and taffy sadie green and joshua benrubimorris wait for the sap to appear maple sugar was the first land of sugar produced in eastern north america it was the standard sweetener used until about 1875 when cane sugar became available v brian horton cooks pancakes as aftab askari and daughter ailya 4 wait to eat the maple syrup industry is worth about 15 million annually to the ontario economy in 2001 there were about 2600 maple producers in ontario according to statistics cana da more recent estimates suggest that there may be as many as 3600 many of them hobbylevel producers