I woke up this morning at 5am to see a good 8″ of snow on the ground that had been bare for what seemed like forever this winter. As I cleaned up the the snow tonight I would say we got at least 12″ possibly more. The scary part is that it’s still snowing… At […]
The syrup stash. Been a slow week or so. Sap flow had been minimal since the record flow of 7.625 gallons on February 22nd. I had only collected 2.5 gallons of sap the following 5 days until an odd day yesterday. I went out after dinner to find 4.5 gallons of sap bringing my six […]
Went out with the boy Sunday to check the taps and was a little nervous. We ended up with close to a 5 gallon bucket full of sap. If this flow kept up I would have been in trouble! Luckily Sunday night brought a good freeze and slowed the sap enough that I only ended […]
