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In Maine, spring yields its first sweet crop

Jars line the sugarhouse at Mitchell & Savage Maple Farm. Jars line the sugarhouse at Mitchell & Savage Maple Farm. (Jonathan Levitt for The Boston Globe)
By Jonathan Levitt
Globe Correspondent / April 2, 2008

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BOWDOIN, Maine - The sugarhouse at Mitchell & Savage Maple Farm is warm and steamy. It smells like wood smoke and maple syrup. Earle (Mitch) Mitchell squints in the harsh morning sunlight and feeds firewood into the boiler. In the kitchen, his wife, Penny Savage, is baking their homegrown yellow eye beans with last spring's syrup and some thickly cut ... (Full article: 529 words)

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