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 […]
Tonight was the best one day, sap run ever since we started sugaring last year. Today I filled five, five gallon buckets to the 4-gallon mark for a total of 20 gallons of sap! At 7pm, when i emptied the buckets, the taps were still dripping too. We had next to nothing running last Saturday. […]
I have found myself with a curious quandary regarding evaporation rates. One that could easily be solved if I took the time to carefully measure and record the amount of sap I boil off in a set period of time. While it sounds straightforward enough, my current liquid measuring tools are a 5 gallon bucket, […]
