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On February 17th we pulled the taps and had our last boiling. We finished the season with 1.1 gallons of syrup. From Jan. 20th-Feb. 17th we had 21/29 days with sap flow.

Had a low sap yield, 5 gallons, made a pint. Temperatures today reach 70 degs. and the 10-day forecast doesn't look promising. Still have 10 gallons to boil from this past week's collection; it may...

Started with 15 gallons of sap and ended up with 1.5 quarts of syrup (sap-sugar concentration @ 2.2%)

Fall and winter pictures of our sugarbush:
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Second boil-off produced 1.4 quarts! We have 15 more gallons to boil Thursday. No sap flow over the last two days, temperatures have not gone below 35 degrees F over the last 2 days.

That is based on the weather records over the last 10 years. We will see what happens, so far, so good!

Today is our second boil-off of the season with 12 gallons of sap at close to 3%. We have had great weather for sap flow over the couple weeks and I'm collecting a lot more sap than anticipated. ...

It's possible.

Southern Yellow Pine, also known as longleaf pine, is mostly a coastal plain species, therefore, that would probably be difficult and not extremely tasty. Further, I'm a Yankee,...

Thanks, maple flats.

I tapped all sugar maple. We are outside the natural range of sugar maple; however, I believe that like a lot of maples they were planted for aesthetic purposes. I will boil...

I tapped a small sugarbush (8 trees, 9 taps) at a middle school in High, Point NC, on January 20th, 2011. We already boiled-off 6 gallons of sap on Monday, January 24th, 2011, and produced 20 ounces...