Tag Archives: Sugaring

Little Creek Maple Farm

Third Boil of 2015

So, I have to jump back to last weekend as I start to catch up with blog posts.  We pretty much get to boil sap on the weekends because it’s a whole day affair.  So last weekend started like any other only we had tons of sap.  Friday night we head to the woods and […]

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3rd Time’s The Charm

We can see the light at the end of the tunnel.  This is despite the fact that we just got another 32 gallons of sap tonight to add to our supply currently buried in the snow.  If we get 11 more gallons of sap, which would bring us to 540 gallons of sap collected, between tonight […]

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Shurflo 4048 Maple Sap Pump

Shurflo 4048 Vacuum Pump Set-up

  This year we decided to help coerce mother nature a tad and force our Red Maples to run a little more consistently.  Having red maples our sap flow tends to be finicky and not every tree runs as consistently as it should.  So after doing some reading up last year we discovered that the […]

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