The couple of warm days here this week have really started to get the family anxious. With the warmer weather and some of the snow staring to melt, we know it won’t be long before its time to start tapping. We are entering our third season of sugaring, and are looking to further streamline the […]
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, […]
