What are a "Sugar Bush" and a "Sugar Camp"?

A Sugar Camp is the cabin in which the maple sap is gathered to be boiled down into maple syrup. This cabin is almost always used exclusively for this purpose. Because of the special equipment required for maple syrup production, and because Sugar Camps need to be located in the middle of the Sugar Bush (see following), it is left unoccupied for the rest of the year.

 
The Sugar Bush encompasses the entire maple syrup producing operation for one producer: maple trees, plastic tubing between the trees, and the Sugar Camp in the middle of it all.

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