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Sugaring 2013 – Slow Week

Well as you can see from the picture above things have been cold here. Most of the lines have been frozen solid. The weather today did poke above freezing for a bit, but not long enough to get the sap rolling. We did go and check the buckets all last weekend and you can see […]

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Sugaring 2013 – Green Waffles

Well I had a slight technical difficulty with our last batch of syrup. As you can see in the photo above I have about a 1/4″ of sugar sand that settle out in last weeks batch of syrup. This has caused be a fair amount of stress trying to figure out the cause of the […]

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Sugaring 2013 – Saturday Boil

Believe it or not Friday’s snow storm appears to have been great for sap! I did not empty the buckets last night and some of the single tree buckets are almost half full this morning. I had 44 gallons of sap on hand in the snow bank that I needed to boil down. I started […]

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