Who They Are
Fulton’s Pancake House & Sugar Bush
Shirley Deugo, family and staff
#291 6th Concession Road, RR#1, Pakenham, ON
K0A 2X0
(613) 256-3867
www.fultons.ca email: info@fultons.ca

What & Where They Sell
100% pure maple syrup and maple candy, a wide variety of gourmet maple products (butters, sugars, fudge, salsa, mustard, teas, jams, sauces & more). All items can be purchased online at <www.fultons.ca> or from their on-site Maple Shoppe.

Family Trees
According to Shirley Deugo, the first Fultons to arrive in this area journeyed from Scotland in the 1840’s and wound up in Lanark County where it “looked like home” Shirley, herself a fourth-generation Fulton, relates the family joke that “if they had only walked a bit farther, they would have found some soil…” But among the rocks and trees of the challenging Canadian landscape were stands of maple trees — offering up a sweet and potentially lucrative spring crop.

Ronald and Diana Coutts
Coutts Country Flavours
County Rd. 18. RR5 Perth. ON K7H 3C7
tel 267–0277  email <couttscountryflavours@live.ca>

Store Summer Hours: Wed.–Sun. 10am–6pm (May-Christmas)
Winter Hours: Fri.–Sun., 10am–6pm

What they sell:
Coutts’ products include grass-fed transitional organic beef (assorted cuts), syrup, produce, products (pickles, relishes, frozen packets) made from their vegetables (from organic, heirloom seed), home baking sweetened with their syrup, preserves and jams sweetened with their syrup, ready-to-eat frozen meals using local and home grown ingredients, pork (starting in July)
Produce from 21 area farmers: hormone and antibiotic free free-run chicken, lamb, buffalo, emu, elk and turkey; grains and flours; hemp chocolate bars; cheese and dairy; berries and apples.

I interviewed Diana and Ron Coutts on their fourth generation farm just as the maple syrup season came to a close in April. There was a good sap run this year, bringing them a 100% crop. Diana expressed a sense of relief as they have experienced a decade of poor sap runs that followed the ice storm in 1999. With 5800 taps, the money they’ve invested in infrastructure, as well as the hours of work that go into every litre of syrup, it is no wonder!