It all begins as a stalk of southern sugar cane seed planted on our farm in Candler County, GA. Sugar cane is a variety of specialized grass native to warm climates ... it can only be grown in the southern US or the tropics. Our fields are planted in rows and fertilized with organic fertilizer as cottonseed meal. The cane plants emerge in the spring when soil temperatures rise and day length incre
ases. It takes about 9 - 11 months for the cane to be ready for harvest. In the early winter before harvest, the fodder is hand stripped from each cane, then topped, then cut down with a cane knife. The cut cane is loaded on trailers and carried to the boiler shelter and syrup house. At this location each stalk of cane is hand fed into our 100+ year old cane mill and the sweet juice is squeezed out. Then the juice is pumped into our 60 gallon cast iron boiler to be reduced down to pure beautiful sweet amber colored syrup. The cooking process takes about 4 - 5 hours to evaporate the water from the juice. At the precise right moment, the heat is cut off and the 200+ degree syrup is dipped out into our stainless steel bottling container. The new syrup is then bottled into either 12 oz or 25 oz glass bottles. We wholesale our syrup in case quantities ... or retail and ship anywhere in the US.
