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Did anyone test their sap from yesterday? Mine is reading over 3?! My water tests at zero so I'm thinking its accurate.

Just hammered in the last nail on the tongue and groove covering the new insulation in the sap house. I'm all about incremental improvement. 100 taps on lines up behind the house and 100 or so...

Tapping on the mountain top - 1/27, 28...finished insulating the sap house on Sat/Sun (tired of freezing while boiling) while our kids tapped ALL the trees in both the sanctuary (200 buckets) and up...

lol. Like the acorns...Hind sight is 20/20! We will see.

Ha! No chance of a 70 degree stretch! Thanks. From your experience how far into the season does the sugar content start to approach the 2% mark?

My plan was to tap earlier than I have been the last couple of years by watching when you all start. It's still SO cold up here on the mountain top in Haines Falls. Close to zero much of the time. It...

Want to know your TAP date next year....I'm gonna be 3 weeks behind you....Maybe

We are at 2200' and we were able to collect 150 gallons on Saturday. We were below freezing Saturday night so will check in a little bit for what I'm pretty will be our last collection. Will boil all...

We are traditionally 3 weeks behind you here on the mountaintop. Snowing here right now but expect to collect tomorrow morning. I have maybe 350 gallons in tanks plus whatever we get tomorrow. The...

We were frozen solid for more than a week. Now it looks like we are flowing again!

We are frozen solid on the mountaintop. Several 55 gallon tanks full, frozen and can't be used. Waiting on Tractor Supply - should have a deicer here by 1pm to protect what I hope will be some fresh...

I never use old caps. I sometimes use old jars that I run through a hot dishwasher and buy new caps from Bascom's for pennies.

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Boiling sap indoors is so much nicer than outside. First year we were outside with a homemade evaporator and freezing. First thing we did was build that sap house. Then we got a really nice...

200 taps went in on 2/20. First 10 gallons finished were all dark as was the second batch. Last 2 years tapped same day and got 4 colors by the end of the season on April 7. Thinking maybe we needed...

Tapped President's Day 2/20 - 200 taps on the Mountaintop. Same tap date as in 2015, and 2016 when we got 4 colors. This year all dark. In a deep freeze right now with all buckets under 3-4 feet of...