Pure Maple Syrup in Nappanee, Indiana
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Tapped and bottled on our Nappanee farm
Pure Maple Syrup
I'll be honest with you — most of the maple syrup sitting on grocery store shelves around Elkhart County isn't really maple syrup. Read the label. You'll find corn syrup, caramel coloring, artificial flavor, and a maple leaf on the bottle that's doing a lot of heavy lifting. That's not what we make here.
Our pure maple syrup is tapped, boiled, and bottled right on our family farm just outside Nappanee, Indiana. When the sap starts running in late winter, we're out in the woods setting taps. When it's time to boil, we're standing over the evaporator watching the steam rise. When it's ready, we bottle it ourselves. That's the whole process — sap to jar, all on the farm. Nothing added, ever.
If you've been driving out to Wakarusa, Goshen, or Middlebury looking for real local maple syrup, or paying premium prices at the farmers market downtown, you don't have to anymore. We're right here on CR 52, just a few miles from town. Folks from Bremen, Milford, and Elkhart make the trip out because once you taste syrup that came off a tree a few weeks ago, the stuff in the plastic jug doesn't cut it anymore. This is local maple syrup in Nappanee, Indiana the way it used to be made — and the way it should still be made.
What Makes Our Maple Syrup Different
Tapped From Our Own Trees
We don't buy bulk syrup from somewhere else and slap our label on it. The trees we tap are on land our family has worked for generations. Every drop in every bottle came from sap collected right here on our family farm in Nappanee Indiana.
Boiled on the Farm
It takes roughly 40 gallons of sap to make one gallon of finished syrup. We do it the slow way, watching color and consistency until it's exactly right. No shortcuts. No shipping it off. Made right here in Indiana.
Nothing Added
This is the part that matters most. Our ingredient list is one word long: maple syrup. No corn syrup, no preservatives, no artificial coloring, no "natural flavor." If your grandmother would recognize it, we made it that way.
Made in Small Batches
Maple season is short — a few weeks in late winter when the days warm up and the nights still freeze. We bottle what we make, and when it's gone for the season, it's gone. That's how real maple syrup works.
Common Questions From Local Customers
How long does it keep?
Unopened, our syrup stays good on the shelf for a long time. Once you open it, keep it in the fridge and it'll last a year or more.
What grade is it?
We produce Grade A maple syrup. If you have a preference for a lighter or darker color, give us a call before you come out and we'll let you know what we have on hand.
Can I buy in bulk?
Yes. A lot of our customers buy several bottles at once — for gifts, for stocking the pantry, or for restaurants and bakeries that want the real thing. Call ahead for larger orders so we can have it ready.
Is it cheaper than the grocery store?
For real, pure maple syrup? Yes — and it's not even close. Compare our price to the small bottles of pure syrup at the chain stores and you'll see why folks keep coming back.
A Family Farm Nappanee Already Knows
Schmucker Grain and Feed has been part of this community for generations. We're the same family that grows the corn, cracks the corn, bales the straw, and feeds the deer herds and chicken coops across Elkhart County. Adding maple syrup to what we offer wasn't a business decision — it was just what we already do every spring, finally available to our neighbors.
When you buy from us, you're buying from a family that lives down the road, not a corporation with a regional distribution center. Our customers are our neighbors — the folks who hunt the woods around Wakarusa, the homesteaders out toward Bremen with their goats and chickens, the families from Goshen and Middlebury who'd rather drive a few miles for the real thing than settle for what's on the grocery store shelf.
That's the difference. And it shows up in the jar.
Ready to Taste the Difference?
We're just a few miles outside Nappanee. Come out, grab a bottle, and taste what real maple syrup is supposed to taste like.