Tapped in Stimes State Forest and High Point HS

[Sugardaddy]

Put in 4 taps at school and 25 on the property we use up the street. Another 10 will go in tomorrow morning. That less than 1/2 of what we normally do, but I just don't have the time and energy this year.

Looking forward to running the kids at school through the process. :)

[5050racing]

That's cool my Dad was a science teacher and would bring sap in and evaporate it in the class n teach the kids about it,very cool!

[Cape tapper]

That's how I got started tapping this year. I am a high school science teacher and one of my classes is a horticulture class. While we were discussing maple trees, I started to talk about how maple syrup was made (although I didn't know much, just the fact that sap is boiled down). One of my students asked if any maple could be used. I didn't think so, but when I looked it up, of course I found out that you could. And being that there are many large (30" +) red maples around the school, I dove right in. I must have missed the flow down here in southern Cape May County though. Several weeks ago I gathered about 10 gallons from 24 taps. Made about a quart of awesome syrup but haven't seen a drop since. I will be on it next year though and hope to do a boil at school. We'll see if they let me do that on school grounds during the day. I have managed to get them to let me keep 20 chickens here, start aquaculture tanks and raise tilapia, and keep several hives of bees on the grounds. I'm addicted now.

[5050racing]

That's great kids are missing a lot these days!

[caoutdoors]

Luscroft farm isnt far from high point I volunteer there at times they have 300 trees tapped with a nice suger house would be a great place for a field trip

[Sugardaddy]

Luscroft farm isnt far from high point I volunteer there at times they have 300 trees tapped with a nice suger house would be a great place for a field trip

I'll be camping there in six weeks with the Scouts. Luscroft is a great place. :)

Sorry about the goofy thread title. It's supposed to say stokes state forest.

[Sugardaddy]

Are you guys an FFA chapter? Sounds like you would be a great fit.

I don't know about conditions down there, but the sap is just starting to think about flowing here. Hardly anything in the past three days in my buckets. Today should be good, then I think it'll bust wide open after the storm.

[caoutdoors]

Its run by the state not sure but open house is this weekend

[dcast99]

Frank from Luscroft got me started in this "hobby/addiction". Brought my sap there to be boiled for a couple of years before out of the blue, I came upon a sweet deal on a complete new evaporator setup from the Swartswood area.