Maple syrup is essentially the sap from Sugar Maple Trees (or other maple trees but with less sugar content) and boiling that sap for a period of time to evaporate the water leaving concentrated sugar or "maple syrup". Maple syrup is a 1,000 year old tradition of the Mi'kmaq First Nation in Cape Breton Island (Eskasoni, Membertou, Chapel Island, Waycobah, and Wagmatcook) and mmMaple continues that 1,000 year old tradition today.

The mmMaple's maple production facility is a 650 sugar maplebush located in Glendale, Cape Breton in the River Denys Mountain Range and strategically situated on the Trans-Canada highway.

mmMaple taps 150+ year old virgin sugar maple trees to acquire a taste and color that is unique to Cape Breton Island. The evaporating process which turns maple sap into maple syrup produces a unique color and flavor and this is as much a product of seasonal changes as it is the type of trees being tapped. The majority of sugar maple trees in Glendale are 2 - 3 feet in diameter, healthy and tapped at a 7 - 10 foot level (normal syrup tapping is completed at the 4 foot mark). The River Denys Mountain Range consistently experiences 7 feet of annual snow fall and as such provides a unique competitive advantage to tapping operations in Cape Breton. Tapping higher in the maple tree collects "sweeter" sap thus the higher sugar content reducing evaporation time considerably over the course of the season.