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LOL trust me, whatever problems there are in MA, PA is much worse! The area we live in is beautiful but has so many problems, so thrilled my husband got this job in Boston (which we know well). We're...

I was looking for something like that, thank you!!

That's so helpful, thank you!!

Thank you so much everyone! Given that buying a house is a cutthroat business these days, I have no idea where we'll end up and getting land with our own trees is low on the need list (good schools,...

Hello!

My family is moving to Massachusetts from Pennsylvania this summer and I am hoping that I can continue this fun hobby after we move but I'm concerned about where I'm allowed to tap. Here...

Been tapped in for a few weeks but I've had a sick kid for a lot of that time. Still have managed to gather about 140 gallons from 22 taps so for me I'm doing good. The RO machine my husband built...

Thanks so much everyone!



LOL technically not but after a week's vacation and then having the RO crap out, I lost my momentum and was done. Still got way more syrup then I ever had before so I...

Hello! Last year my husband made me a small scale RO which was amazing but I didn't clean it at all and when we got back from a week long vacation it was gross and my season was over. Huge bummer.
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I'm just south of Pittsburgh & planning on tapping this week, was out of the country last week or I would have done it then. And get my husband to set up my RO machine!

That is so cute!

Can someone point me to online sources for RO soap? I checked CDL but they don't offer it for sale online and I'm not close to one of the stores.

That is a super cute bottle, where did you get it?

I'm done as well, now I just have to get the energy up to clean everything. Still have a bunch of near syrup in the freezer that I need to finish, I'll probably put that off until I'm finished...

My husband built me a homemade RO which worked great until I forgot to change the filter :)

Last night I was putting together a parts list for the future and noticed that there were many...

Nope. 100% dirty RO, I forgot to change the filter before we went on vacation *facepalm* I was close to closing up shop anyway as I'm having eye surgery in two weeks and wanted to get everything...

Ack. I just had to dump a whole bunch of sap and concentrate, everything was ropy and smelled awful when I boiled it. Think I'm going to have to clean like mad if I want to do anything else this...

We get back from vacation on Saturday at 5:30 and you better believe that I’m going to get all my buckets put out that night! Even if I don’t get much in March, I’ve already got 4.5 gallons of almost...

I managed to get it all boiled or concentrated and in the freezer before we left. I’ll be ready to go when we get back!

We're headed out of town for a week on the 1st, I'm hoping that I can keep up with everything until Wednesday night, then I'll rinse & store my buckets until we get back.

That is crazy mad scientist stuff, I love it! I've got to find a smaller table for our RO but it's working fine for us now, just a tight squeeze to get into the cars.

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Spent the past few days pulling sap out of the woods, running the RO almost 24/7 and getting the kinks worked out with my new pan. Everything's running smoothly now but I'm kind of glad we're in a...

Just fired up our RO machine for the first time, it's working great. Started with 2% and it's coming out around 6%, fingers crossed it will go up later. I'm so very excited about this!

Nice! I finally got the refractometer I ordered so tonight we're going to test out the RO. I'm very excited to see what it does :)

Put out most of my taps now, I think there are a few more trees I've marked but I can't remember where they are! Will have to go looking for them later in the week. But I've gotten about 13 gallons...

I think that would be an excellent idea, I'd be happy to work with you on that!