A day after cooking down 130 gallons of sap from 14 acres of walnut trees for Mountain State Maple Days in West Virginia, Gary Mongold remembered something his grandfather told him years before.
“He said, ‘Son, someday them walnut trees will make somebody a lot of money,’” the owner of Mongold’s Walnut Syrup Farm in Petersburg, West Virginia, recalled his grandfather prophesying.
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Gary Mongold’s logo graces the side of his sugar shack.
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Gary Mongold (right) with his son Jordan.
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Mark Bowers, who passed away last year, was Gary Mongold’s best friend and mentor.
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