Sheridan, Oregon · Willamette Valley

Maple syrup from trees nobody else taps.

Bigleaf maple grows up and down the Pacific coast, from Alaska to Northern California, and almost no one makes syrup from it. We do, on our family farm, in small winter batches. Dark amber, robust, nothing added.

Oregon

Grown & bottled

Bigleaf

Not sugar maple

100%

Pure, nothing added

Family

Farm, small batch

Sold out for 2026
Bigfoot Bigleaf Maple Syrup 200ml bottle with gold cap in front of a row of bottles, fall leaves behind
Bigleaf Maple Syrup

One syrup. Three sizes.

★★★★★  5.0 on Google

Dark amber with notes of chocolate, caramel and toasted brown sugar. Good in coffee, over ice cream, in a marinade, or straight off the spoon.

1.6 oz · tasting size, stocking stuffer · sold out

6.7 oz · our most popular · sold out

12.6 oz · for the pantry · sold out

✓ Next run bottled in spring 2027    ✓ Free pickup in Sheridan    ✓ Secure checkout via Stripe

Dan Caldwell checking sap lines on a stand of bigleaf maples in Sheridan, Oregon

Dan, checking lines on the maples behind the farm

Why bigleaf

Vermont taps sugar maple. We tap what grows here.

Bigleaf maple has been standing along the Pacific coast for thousands of years. Until recently, nobody bottled it.

Sugar maple doesn’t grow in the Pacific Northwest. Bigleaf does, everywhere, and it runs sap in the wet Oregon winter instead of the New England spring. The sugar content is lower, which means more sap and more boiling for every bottle, and a syrup that tastes unlike anything from the East Coast: darker, rounder, with that chocolate-and-caramel finish.

We’re a multi-generational family business in Sheridan. The goal is simple: make something our kids and grandkids can keep making, and get it onto your table.

“We always recommend people taste it before they buy it, because it doesn’t taste like East Coast maple syrup.”  Dan, at the McMinnville Farmers Market

2,300

trees tapped last season

66%

sugar at bottling

Dec–Feb

sap season

How it’s made

Tapped in winter. Boiled down. Bottled by hand.

Nothing goes in but sap. We take out water; that’s the whole recipe.

Dan Caldwell at the reverse-osmosis unit in the sugar shack
01

Tap

Lines go on the maples when the winter freeze-thaw starts, usually December. Sap runs clear and barely sweet.

02

Concentrate

Reverse osmosis pulls most of the water out first, so the boil is shorter and the flavor stays clean.

03

Boil & bottle

We boil to 66% sugar, the point where sap becomes syrup, then filter, bottle and cool. Then it ships to you.

From customers

What people say

★★★★★  5.0 on Google

Delicious, deep, and dark. Perfect addition to waffles or any other food that you like syrup on.

Jeff M
Google review · ★★★★★

Delicious Syrup from a local family run business.

Yulia Krupska Berner
Google review · ★★★★★

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In the news

Oregon’s maple story is getting told

Bottle of Bigfoot Bigleaf Maple Syrup standing on mossy forest floor
Farm documentary

Bigleaf Maple Syrup: Oregon’s Next World Class Culinary Delight

Twenty-four minutes in our woods and sugar house with Elliot, from tap to bottle. Filmed by Good News Tree Service.

Bigleaf maple syrup pouring from a bottle onto a spoon, from OPB’s Superabundant episode
OPB video

Oregon’s bigleaf maple syrup is about more than just pancakes

Superabundant on “the espresso of maple syrups” and the Oregon farmers, Dan among them, building a business from an overlooked tree.

Two men running sap lines through a mossy bigleaf maple grove
Capital Press

Western Innovator: Tapping into potential of bigleaf maples

How a handful of Oregon producers are building a syrup industry from a tree everyone overlooked.

Recipes

What to do with it

Maple cookies on a plate
Baking

Maple Cookies

Soft, buttery, with the syrup doing the sweetening.

A bowl of whipped maple butter
Spread

Maple Butter

Whipped butter and syrup. Ten minutes, keeps for weeks.

Bottle of bigleaf maple syrup on moss
The cookbook

Eight recipes from the farm kitchen

Banana bread, pecan pie, a salmon glaze, two marinades and more. Amy’s favorites, tested with our syrup.

Newsletter

Hear when the season’s run is bottled.

Small batches sell out. One email when new syrup is ready, one before the holidays. That’s it.