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 […]
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 […]
The 2015 season started out with snow and lots of it! We spent the better part of two weekends unburying and re-working our existing 5/16” lateral lines in preparation for our new 1/2” main line and vacuum system. We ran approximately 250’ of 1/2” main line from our driveway to a 35 gallon collection tank […]
