Last weekend I finally got around to taking our last batch of maple sap concentrate and reducing it to syrup. An hour or so of boiling and we were ready to filter. This go around I wanted to use a jelly bag filter that I had read about online and ordered from Amazon. It was […]
I finally got some time to boil. It’s a good thing too! We had maybe close to 40 gallons of sap that needed boiling right away. I had done my best to keep the 5-gallon pails buried in the snow bank, but after a string of warm spring days with temperatures well into the 50’s, […]
Late Saturday afternoon, much to my surprise, the sap was running. It was warm out, maybe upper 30’s, but it was cool with a stiff breeze, and I wasn’t expecting much. However, when we went to hit the dump, we were shocked to see the buckets overflowing! We had to rush to the dump before […]
