Sampling Bacon Farm Maple Products

Harvest Hosts is an incredibly unique RV membership program. Through this program, members are granted access to 5,900 host locations across North America for overnight accommodations with no camping fees. To support each of these businesses, members typically make a small purchase of wine or produce or whatever it is that the business is selling or offering. Locations include establishments such as farms, wineries, breweries, museums, restaurants, attractions, and more. Bacon Farm Maple Products is a great example of one of our awesome hosts. Located outside of Augusta, Maine, this farm has been tapping and producing their own maple products for six generations. Find more RV camping in Maine here.

Continue on to learn all about:

• The history of Bacon Farm Maple Products
• The business today
• When they joined the Harvest Hosts program

The History

Bacon Farm has been in the Bacon family for over 100 years, starting with its founding in 1891 by Henry Otis Bacon. It began as a dairy farm, with maple syrup production taking place in the spring to supplement the dairy business. The process of making maple syrup is quite lengthy. Bacon Farm typically begins tapping their 3500 trees in mid-February, taking nearly a month to complete this process. After collection, the sap is safely stored until it’s time to begin the boiling process. Each year, on the fourth Sunday in March, also known as Maple Maine Sunday Weekend, spectators gather at the farm to watch the syrup-making process unfold. Over the course of several hours, the sap begins to turn to a golden color, and finally the brown, sticky product that we all know as maple syrup emerges. Did you know that it takes about forty gallons of sap to create just one gallon of maple syrup? This process is tricky yet so rewarding once all the syrup has been made.