Thinking about Maple Syrup Season

It's time to start thinking about maple syrup season so that you've got your stuff prepared and you're ready to go in February when the sap starts flowing.

Here's a link to how we tap our trees and where we get our supplies.  Maple tapping is  growing in popularity again and you may be able to find supplies at your local farm store or hardware store.  Ask around.  

Here's how we manage the fire on boiling day.

Here's more about the maple syrup itself.

Sap Runneth

One of the only things to get me through this winter has been the now steady drip, drip, drip of sap into the sap bags.    We're getting a bit more than a gallon a day from each tree as long as the temps go below freezing at night.    Some days, we get more.  


It's the freeze/thaw cycle that pumps the sap through the tree.

I let the sap bag get about 1/3 full and then empty it.  We've had it spill because it gets so full and I don't want to lose a single drop.    This week I've been emptying a couple of times a day - and one day we emptied three times.   We got close to 2 gallons that day.

I'm so looking forward to the boil.