Bonhomie Acres is on Quaker Road in Fredericktown, Ohio, where maple syrup making reaches back to the 1800s. William and Kate Brown built the farm’s current sugarhouse in 1948, continuing work that many neighboring farms eventually stopped doing.

Earlier generations gathered sap with horses and wagons and boiled it over a wood-fired evaporator. The farm later added tubing systems to gather sap, while the next generation learned the work of making syrup.

Pancakes are one place to start, but they don’t need to be the only reason to open the bottle. Try a little in oatmeal, whisk some into a dressing, or use it when roasting vegetables. Keep the amount to your own taste.