We had a great year this time around. We tapped on March 1st because I had my holidays booked for the middle of march. Unlike last year it was a nice gradual spring this year with 2 cold spells which helped us keep caught up with finishing etc. We ran out of wood near the end of march and had to cut up some elm behind the barn and we acquired some cedar which really burned nice and hot. We fine tuned our firing and filtering techniques and we need to build better roads back to our woods. We produced just over 70 litres of beautiful clear syrup from our 68 taps which I was quite pleased with. It is still running a little bit down here in southern Ontario but I have had enough for this year. Time to sell a few litres to pay for some knick knacks for next year. cvmaple