Well the photo above kind of sums up this past week of sugaring! Nothing has ran since last Sunday February 23rd, 2014. We have been in the freezing tundra of New Hampshire or caught in some kind of polar vortex. Despite the last couple years of unpredictable warm-ups, it is looking like this year will […]
Well we got started on our maple sugaring season yesterday, with 40+ degree weather yesterday, it was time to get the taps in. Thankfully I had lots of energetic help. The boys rounded up the buckets and helped blaze trails through the snowpack! On our way to tap the first tree with the kids, notice […]
Last weekend I finally got around to taking our last batch of maple sap concentrate and reducing it to syrup. An hour or so of boiling and we were ready to filter. This go around I wanted to use a jelly bag filter that I had read about online and ordered from Amazon. It was […]
