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Could grommets be installed in the plastic pails? I have pails from 10 liter up to 22 liter. I just drilled a 5/16 hole in the side. I have blue plastic ecospiles, old school wire hooks, and old...

Anyone get any freezing rain damage yesterday? Doesn't seem to be much accumulation here. Stupid weather we're getting. Just thaws, not freezing at night. Another thaw here Sunday thru Tuesday.

There are pheromone traps available. 1 trap is supposed to be good for 1 acre and 1000 female moths.

Surprised that for not freezing the night before, that they had enough power to carry on till around 6 pm when they were noticeably slower. Good run I guess. Some trees are just getting going I...

My dad just found a hot canned crown canning jar of 1979 syrup my grandpa made. He said it had great flavour! Lol!

Yeah, I don't know why exactly because there are hard maple that are under performers as well. My guess is the soil, mostly sandy with a bit of clay, swampy bush we have. Go up the road 5 miles...

I'd like to give mother nature a good talking to, to be mindful of all the farmer's, for all the seasons. Lol.

I consider my trees to run poorly. I have a lot of soft maple, probably 60% at...

The weekend freezes gave me around 1100 Imperial gallons of sap. Some trees have either quit, slowed way down or a few gave me overflowing buckets. Sap is not clear for the most part. Making really...

Gathering whatever is out there tomorrow. Yeah it might be done

Most of my sales are farmer's markets. They have been shut down till at least the end of April. Earlier in the week it was until April 5. My thinking is they will cancel out longer. All but 1 are on...

Disappointing run on Monday. Thought it was a good freeze. Was freezing around dark on Sunday. Was -4 Monday morning. Friend said that it was only -1 at 4:30 when he went to work. Maybe that was why...

Finally a good freeze. First good one for me since Friday March 6. Had a small freeze on Tuesday the 10th with a very small run. Very light morning freeze on the 14th resulting in nothing and a light...

Anybody with kids will have lots of help now for the next 3 weeks as schools off 1 week for March break and 2 weeks of self isolation afterwards

My uncle was in the same boat as you. Drove bus, milked cows, made syrup. He had some kids to help though

Heard today that a guy in the Cambridge area with 50,000 taps is all done tapping.

Got my supplies today. Got a few more trees to cut and a couple mainlines to repair and then I'll start tapping...

Only good thing about it is there hasn't been much snow. Fall was colder than winter. Haven't had any safe ice yet. Lots of ash trees to drop in or over swamps . Can't even get a tractor in the bush....

A woman asked me today if I was going to try infused syrup. I wasn't sure what kind of infusion she was talking about, so I asked. She said cannabis. She has 2 sons that make syrup around Cambridge....

I used to use 7/16 Irwin wood auger bits and i think Task was a brand I used as well. They worked well for me. I did as my uncle did back then. He'd put a block of wood on the bit so you could only...

Any bits I've broken come as a result in downward pressure on the bit, which was caused by snow letting you down. Broke 2 in one year.

You can when it's your job.

There is some info in the tapping Canada section

Yes there was decent financial support assistance. Can't remember how much they would cover now, however I never found out about it till too late. They had used up their money and I went on a list....

My worst test was 2.0 ppm. Ontario's threshold was .5 ppm. It was early syrup all from my lines as I didn't have the buckets tapped yet. So my evaporator was the culprit because it was clean. It was...

Well I'm still going. Trees ran half decent this week, but some have seriously slowed down or dried up. Cooler sides of the trees are definitely picking up now. The North side of the bush and a lot...

Hi Marty. When the colour went lighter, did the flavour change at all?