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We're done too. Did one last boil off today. Started cleaning up and pulling spouts.

Total for season = 649 gallons on about 1,500 taps (.41 gal/tap).

Ken

Still going out there in Vermont?

I'm planning to boil later tomorrow if I get a good run today once it warms up. I'm about a quarter full on my raw sap tank from the last couple of days and I...

I have a personal weather station consisting of an Ambient WS2000 that is hooked up to weather underground.

https://www.wunderground.com/dashboard/pws/KVTWILLI29

It's easy to set up and...

How did you do yesterday (Saturday) with more mild weather? I got only 500 gallons Friday. My sugarbush is W-NW facing and ranges from about El 800 to 1200. We finished off the day with some wet...

It was raining sap here in Williston. Sap started trickling in about 5 pm. I hadn't noticed that there was a sag in my pump line, apparently frozen solid, as I climbed down into the pump station....

My guys did a full brick replacement in the arch this week. Also replaced lots of ceramic blanket.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/Kc3wHT4LHy3bvuCy5

Ken

Hi Andy
Good luck. We're doing our first boil of the season tomorrow. You're welcome to stop by anytime, as are any of our sugaring friends.

Ken

We call them DRS (dirty rotten squirrels) because when I use the word squirrel our dog gets all wound up when I say their name. She hates squirrels like any good sugarbush dog.

We had a bad acorn...

Thursday night update:

Vacuum is very strong through our our sugarbush
All systems seem to performing well. Very little sap coming in, probably the trees are still pretty frozen. But we're...

It wasn't flowing when I walked the woods earlier. But the sap was built up at the tap like it was ready. My woods ranges from about El 830 to 1100 and we're on a westerly slope.

Ken

Tapped, vacuum on, and now checking for leaks.

The rules and enforcement are not as robust as for NOFA. However, it comes down to your integrity. If you label your product as Audubon bird-friendly, then it should be accurate. Therefore, you take...

Based on your website, the sap, or concentrate would need to be both organic and Audubon certified, right?.

Mark,
I'm surprised you're not yielding a little higher gal/tap. Do you have a high red count? I'm currently just breaking 0.40. You're on hi-vac, right?
Ken

It pretty much did stop for us yesterday (we're anywhere from about EL. 880 to 1100 ft and somewhat NW facing). We boiled what we had yesterday and both the sap and the syrup were fine. I kept the...

Blissville,
I'm a little envious. I've been a little behind then I sprained my ankle in the sugarhouse last week which set me even further behind. Then yesterday, I was rebuilding a section of...

Perhaps a maple-hickory syrup made by boiling the bark in maple sweet until it turns to syrup density.

It's more a matter of claiming 900 gallons of syrup that you didn't produce without making that clear.

And sap sugar content to maple syrup is one of those fuzzy math things that is effected by a...

Hey Ultimate,
I'm confused. I thought you sold sap from your recent post that you collected 18,000 gallons and overwhelmed your buyer. How do you get 900 gallons of syrup if you sell your sap?
Ken

I've got mayflowers poking up too.

We threw in the towel yesterday after the flavor went off. I probably could have managed it better towards the end but I had my covid vaccine last week and it knocked the crap out of me for a couple...

Are you serious? Do you have that much storage capacity?

We have done really well with the Trans0580 - Up until our boil on Tuesday. Then all hell broke loose twice during the boil. It came back under control fairly quickly but not until overfoaming all...

Dr. Tim:

We built a new house in 2017/18 - are you ever really done? We've got heat pumps and lots of power consuming devices and appliances. After a couple of pricey monthly power bills from...

Yup, it sounds like you know my trees really well. Not only do we own 87 acres of the old Brown Farm, I lease the sugarbush from the Boutins. I've heard others talk about their Boys Scout years and...