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feeling the need to tap trees and missing my sugarbush....

I have 1 bottle of my syrup left from 2014 and then I'm going to have to buy it in a store out here on Vancouver Island (depressing)
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Are you maybe stirring the syrup in the filter or squeezing it? I found this lets nitre through. Need to diump it in and just let it go through by itself

And my wife thinks I have a problem...

Have to admit after selling the homestead I have sure been enjoying this west coast weather... but man the thoughts of missing the first sap run are killing me! Hope you all have a great...

I will report how this goes, looking forward to anything maple!10482

Sad that I am no longer sugaring so am not getting the Jan panic mode. Will be heading to the big leaf maple festival out here in bc in a couple weeks. Maybe they need a volunteer!

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I will definitely have to check that out!!

Moving to Campbell River which is north of Nanaimo.

Sugarsand, Have to say I'm a pretty sad myself but am looking forward to the new adventures! Seeing the for sale sign on the house yesterday...

This seemed like the right spot for this.

Since we love the area and I have tons of family out there we are moving out to Vancouver Island!!! There goes my dream estate with the maple trees!!...

Ordered a new polaris ranger 570 and telling my wife we needed it for maple stuff!!! That's the closest thing to maple I have been up to.

Harvested a small chunk today and Had some ramp and vegetable soup. Not too strong but nice taste to it. Tomorrow is ramp and potato soup. They are a decent size now

my kid ate one of those wild leaks and complained for hours! now that I am aware of them it's all I can smell in the back.. I could harvest a massive crop if I wanted to.

fiddleheads... never...

Hey Kyle, curious if you retested any of your syrup cold to see how it finished. I always test boiling hot about 1/2 notch past done and it is fine cold. I always figure it cools down quicker...

Go Russ!!! You must be one of the last still going

Is this the right thing? Just starting here but I see tons of it9697

Sad ending, the big nearup pot from my father-in-lAw boiling all Friday and Saturday was crap when almost finished. Tasted bad! About 15 litres I guess. It waS the cloudy sap I did use. ...

Well. After 11 years at this I finally know what snotty sap looks like. Scooped the stuff in the evap since Saturday and it definitely looks like snot hanging off the spoon !!!

Tasted a bit off and had a bit of odour...although my tank needs cleaning so odour may not be the new sap. Main thing is my trail from the shack to the tank is so far destroyed I am lucky to get...

Well, sap flowing like crazy today but very cloudy so I pulled the line out of the tank and drained it all. Forgot to save any for my pan though!?! Final totals in a few days after we...

175 gallons in the tank plus the 40 I brought in last night! Still running. It is quite cloudy in the main tank but clear in my smaller collection tank

Hmmmm. Boiling the new sap but there is a noticeably different odour and we are getting more shaving cream like foam on top... Am I wasting my time? Sap is fairly clear after filtering. ...

Sap at 2.4% on digital refrac. Need to figure out how to zero portable refrac as it reads over 4 but distilled water tested at 2.

Well. Best run of year but cloudy in main tank . Tastes ok to me...not bitter so will filter and see how it looks . Running strong right now

Well, 5 hours filling sandbags.. Big Eddy think I saw your son there... Great support from local business with food, water coffee etc. talking to mayor sounds like latest hope is it crests...

Didn't make it Eddy, wife's birthday so was a good boy and went to supper with family. Feeling guilty for not helping out!

Bit of sap In the main tank but not enough to do anything with. Bet...

thinking I should not worry about collecting sap and go help make sandbags this evening... serious problems around here not far from me. Thankfully my own little swamp has peaked and started to go...