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 […]
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 […]
Luckily for me, I had last Friday off to prep the evaporator for our first maple sap boil last weekend. There were 2 major project on deck that needed to be completed. First was to modify my poly 35 gallon leg tank to make it a little more user friendly. For anyone familiar with these […]
