FAYSTON, Vt.—A Vermont woman is starting a database of abandoned sugarhouses.

 

Dori Ross is the founder of The Sugarhouse Project, an online registery of old sugarhouses.

 

“I have spent a lot of time with old sugarmakers in their sugarhouses, talking to them and listening to their stories,” Ross said.  “This rich history needs to be preserved somehow.”

 

Sugarmakers who have an abandoned sugarhouse in their sugarbush can go to the Project’s website www.sugarhousevermont.com and register their structure.

 

“The hope is some of these old sugarhouses can be saved before they disappear and the sugaring history with them,” Ross said.