Not much to report today but we did bottle up our first batch of syrup this season tonight. Ironically this is from sap that we boiled this past weekend, because we have no more cold storage — the fridge was full and the freezer is full of syrup or almost syrup and with the weather […]
So, I am playing a little catch up here with the blog. The Shurflo Vacuum pump and main line did better than we had ever expected! More to follow on that in a later post. So jump back one weekend ago to Saturday the 28th. We had another good run and since the weather was […]
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 […]
