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2006 GREY -BRUCE
6144
WOODLOT
CONFERENCE
"The Living Forest"
Elmwood Community Centre
Saturday, April 1, 2006
9:00 A.M. - 3:30 P.M.
• Register & View Displays
(9:00 a.m.)
• All you wanted to know about
wild turkeys
• Multipurpose plantations
• Management planning and
interior habitat
• Wildflowers in the woodlot
• Update on the Managed Forest
Tax Incentive Program
Pre -registration Cost - $20.00
per person, payable to Grey -
Bruce Woodlot Conference
(includes hot meal)
Registration at the door
$25.00 (includes hot meal)
Sunday, April 2, 2006
- 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
A field trip to expand on the practical
side of woodlot management.
Location & map available on Saturday
Cost is $10.00. Admission is free for
those who attend the Saturday
Conference or are a member of the
Bruce County Woodlot Association
or Grey County Woodlot
Association. Pre -registration is
necessary.
For more information or to
register or if you wish to set up
an exhibitor display,
please contact:
Saugeen Conservation
519-364-1255 ext. 33
or
j.penner@svca.on.ca
O'Brien chuckles. "As much as the
trees will give us," he says. Like
most crops, yield vary. While the rule
of thumb is that each tap will yield a
Titre of syrup, last year saw only
about 50 per cent of normal. In other,
really good, years that yield might be
125 per cent of normal.
Most of their maple products are
marketed directly to customers. Gale
has been responsible for getting them
into selling at a lot of craft shows.
"We're are most the top juried
shows," Dick says.
Gale and their son spent seven
days at the Royal Winter Fair this
year selling their products. They've
also done the Sportsman's Show for
years.
They also market to such high-end
customers as a couple of wineries in
Niagara and The Old Mill restaurant
in Toronto.
O'Brien is past president of the
Ontario Maple Syrup Producers'
Association and was president at the
time the Seal of Quality designation
was being introduced. The O'Briens'
own operation has gone through the
quality assurance steps necessary to
become is a Seal of Quality producer.
Back in the early days the
maple syrup went mostly to
friends and relatives and they
called it "Uncle Dick's maple syrup".
When he got more serious about
marketing and began to think about
labels, he suggested he use the name
Uncle Dick's but he was advised to at
least make it a little classier as Uncle
Richard's. When he expanded into
equipment, the name transferred
there too.
It was five years ago that he got
into the equipment side of the
operation, taking over a small
dealership in the area. He'd decided
to take semi -retirement from his
other job and make the operation
full-time.
Producers seeking equipment in
the past had to go to dealers in
Collingwood and Orillia to get
supplies.
"We provide supplies for the
bigger producers, but what I found
(as a producer) is that there was
virtually no one around who made
syrup who was a dealer who I could
go to and get some really good
advice from. I've already made most
of the mistakes — though I'll