I finally got some time to boil. It’s a good thing too! We had maybe close to 40 gallons of sap that needed boiling right away. I had done my best to keep the 5-gallon pails buried in the snow bank, but after a string of warm spring days with temperatures well into the 50’s, […]
Well I had a slight technical difficulty with our last batch of syrup. As you can see in the photo above I have about a 1/4″ of sugar sand that settle out in last weeks batch of syrup. This has caused be a fair amount of stress trying to figure out the cause of the […]
Believe it or not Friday’s snow storm appears to have been great for sap! I did not empty the buckets last night and some of the single tree buckets are almost half full this morning. I had 44 gallons of sap on hand in the snow bank that I needed to boil down. I started […]
