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I've noticed high seed rates for maple species (sugar, silver, red, box elder) as well as hickory, walnut, red bud, black locust, and kousa and flowering dogwood. I have not noticed large crops from...

The biggest thing that will bother your buckets on the ground is wind. Doesn't take much to hold them in place, though.

I see more advantages with buckets on the ground as opposed to on the...

I am always interested to see how people do in identifying leaves from pictures. How'd the survey with the arborist go?

it seems we go through this every year, but that's what qualifies for water cooler gossip with this crowd. Me too, I been poring over every possible mid and long range forecast I can find for a...

What kind of sugarmaker am I that I am looking forward to an extended spell of weather that will not be conducive to good sap flow?

Truth be told, I tapped about as early as I dared. The start to...

your mileage may vary.

look up the jones law. if you know the sugar content of the sap, you can be quite precise about finished volume. and yes, it varies. it can vary on the same tree within...

Collected about 275 gallons. Sugar was running lower than earlier runs.

There is a pour spout lid you can get for mason jars. I recall getting a couple of amazon.

You guys up north slay me! Ha! Never thought I'd be saying that.

Weekend turned out ok. Each day was torture, it was too warm, but over the whole weekend collected enough to finish another four...

Started tapping on Saturday. About 230 taps in. Averaged about a gallon per so far, right at 2%.

I had a small 18" x 48" evaporator I got from the maple guys (gratuitous plugs never hurt). I managed to get 10 gal/hr without air and better with.

I'd get something with flues and a cross flow...

we'll find out.

I once heard someone say that when the peepers peep three days in a row, the season's over. I've heard them once.

there doesn't seem to be a way of reliably predicting or...

The short answer is, I don't know of a way of predicting the length of the season or when trees would start to bud other than observation in any given year.

The longer answer is, there has to be a...

Where are you?

Words of wisdom...it's okay to love your trees...just don't love your trees.

According to most people i know, i'm always obsessive with the weather. I guess when you grow up on a farm, it never really leaves you.

Of possible interest, I noticed this week that all the high...

(mumbling about luck)

I did most of my tapping last week...forecast looked good, and the date on the calendar is just that...so for me, the weekend was disappointing. the nice forecast (for sap...

Simple answer, yes, you need the temperature change. At the end of the season, when sap flows regardless of temp, is when you get that off flavor referred to as 'buddy'.

Simply put, eastern north...

steits, I'm up the hill from you, top of umpawaug. I've seen you boiling in the open the last couple of years, noticed a while back you had upgraded. tapped a few this week. Still think I'm early,...

I have one, and really like it. Like you, my sweet spot is around 30 gallons, and spending the $$ for a 10" or larger with a pump just doesn't make much sense.

Here's what I know: Filter as...

tubing and a collection chamber. there's a guy not far from me, he did something similar for the first time this year. Instead of the traditional buckets, he ran tubes and had two or three...

The last few years I was the first person to tap in my neighborhood, and I did so President's day weekend, and I generally beat the other folks around me by a week or so. This year, I'm the last. ...

There's a few things people will never understand, and usually people end up arguing about the wrong stuff.

Don't forget, when you support farmers, you support all farmers, big and small. So what...

First, read the local zoning laws. You may need some chemical assistance for two reasons: 1), these things are infinitely boring, and EVERY town has them. How there is that much boring to go...

We're new to the game, so I'll readily admit to a learning curve we are still climbing.

That being said, either I'm extremely good at this, or very, very, lucky.

This is our third year making...