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Northern business owners share startup story
Al and Johanna McLauchlan built a successful company tapping birch trees — and consumer interest in natural foods
It all began with a half a cup. That’s how much syrup Alan and Johanna McLauchlan produced back in 2004 when they tried tapping a few birch trees for the first time. It would ultimately lead the couple, who lives about an hour’s drive north of The Pas, to found their own company and produce

Maple syrup ritual spurs childhood memories
When my sister makes maple syrup every spring, she also recreates treasured memories from my childhood
Every spring a corner of our backyard is transformed into a scene that could be from Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House books. Two columns of bricks create a makeshift stove, over which giant rectangular pans sit atop a steel table-like structure. Barrels of scrap hardwood, collected throughout winter at our carpenter shop especially for this,