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Our First Boil of 2015

Well 16 mostly full buckets is how I started our first boil today.  I say mostly full because 5 gallons is almost at the very top.  I tend to keep them just below the outside lip which puts them in the neighborhood of 4 gallons.  So 64 gallons of sap that needs to be reduced […]

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Sugaring 2014 – Impromptu Blower

Even with yesterday’s 50F degree day we still had some buckets with a little bit of ice skin on the top of the sap.  I am too stingy to discard this ice for fear that I am throwing out even the tiniest bit of maple sap, despite what I have read about this ice containing […]

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