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We quit filtering a couple years ago (we don't sell it). Very liberating! Our syrup is not for the faint of heart...

Tough week in the big woods of Natick. Almost zero sap, might not even light the fire Saturday.

I would not eat brass food.

I would like to freeze my "sap concentrate" batches for finishing in a single session later. My understanding is that syrup won't freeze in a conventional freezer. Is this right? If so, what about...

Maybe 30 gallons from 35 taps in 24hr in Natick, pretty good day I think.

Several thousand dollars of maple water as of this evening, I think.

Running really nicely this afternoon.

When I was a kid we had a neighbor who had multiple school-bus workshops (on blocks). Worked great. I realize boiling is a whole different story, regardless I think it's a neat idea.

When we're done in the spring, briefly hose out each bucket, then dip buckets in tub of bleach diluted ~1:10. Remove and let stand, wet, for about 15 minutes. Then rinse with water (hose), stack...

In eastern MA I've had an interesting observation about homeowners. I try to get permission to hunt in their woods, and have near-zero success. But people find out we make syrup--and they offer to...

We don't filter (we also don't sell it). People we give it to eat it right up.

I have a vein-sniffing dog.

Wasn't being critical, just trying to give you a chuckle! Happy new year!

I never log out, because if I did I'm not sure how to log back in. And initially I thought your post concerned logging in the woods, which probably tells you something.

I am aware of a place where you can pay $100 (or something) to send your child to sap-bucket-washing day-camp. In August.

Wow very similar. I wonder how well it works.

I was thinking about pick-your-own operations (apples, blueberries, etc), and I had a thought--what about some kind of reserve-some-trees arrangement? With the kind of buckets that everyone...

OK here's a December activity rundown from a small-time Massachusetts hobby producer:

Woodpile still there? Check.

Trees still there? Check.

Good to go.

My understanding is that you concentrate about 10X with ro, then the remainder via evaporation. It seems like you could sell the post-ro, pre-boil material as "maple water concentrate." My guess is...

It is a mixed blessing I think. Certainly there are wonderful aspects to it, like this maple web site. Most of what I know I learned here.

Just saw this on Sunday night football. That bottle is shown three times. Pretty interesting.

Same here, we are not exactly scientific about it, but I think we are about 60:1. We are more like a Laurel and Hardy show.

If you put out bacon grease and candy bars, I will show up myself...

Some easy solutions concerning the kid thing anyway--just make them play video games 14 hours a day. Or, if I have the type of weirdo kids who insist on playing outside, I just put up some "children...

Here's another one: why do we generally think baiting fish is OK, but baiting land critters is more debatable? This is an offshoot, I guess, of the inexplicable fact that many people who think...