Spring Harvest 2013

[Amber Gold]

Was able to collect almost 500 gal on Saturday, and with another 110 gal delivered, so we were able to boil last night. Sugar's still down though...1.3%. Going to make for a long rest of the season if this cold weather doesn't kick it up a few notches.

Still had a busy weekend doing misc. tasks around the SH. Made a ton of cream and candy for maple weekend. still have a few batches to go. The cold weather coincided well with a cold I got from my daughter...again...didn't feel like doing much of anything Friday and Saturday. Sunday, rearranged the canners, added shelves, and picked things up a bit. Still plenty to do before we're ready for maple weekend.

Just think, last year at this time, it was mid-80's...this year it's in the single digits...hitting the extremes. It looks like we'll easily make it into April, and then some, this year.

[red maples]

yep too cold slow going here too I was suprised to get as much sap as I did over the weekend. yesterday wasn't much just windy and cold but the sun was enough to warm things, gravity had slowed quite a bit need a good warm up for that. Sorry youre sick again. I am not going to press my luck and say anything about me on that situation!!! I remember when my kids were little until they were 2-3 we were all sick every few months and it would just travel around the house. Sugarhouse steam works well but not when its too cold thats just sucks!!

[Amber Gold]

Yesterday, we were able to scrounge together enough sap to boil. We brought home about 375 gal and had another 300 gal delivered. Sugar's back up to 1.6%...thankfully. Hopefully with the primo weather the forecast shows, it'll stay up. Season's up to 21gpt of sap and hopefully we get a strong finish to the season.

[Russell Lampron]

Yesterday, we were able to scrounge together enough sap to boil. We brought home about 375 gal and had another 300 gal delivered. Sugar's back up to 1.6%...thankfully. Hopefully with the primo weather the forecast shows, it'll stay up. Season's up to 21gpt of sap and hopefully we get a strong finish to the season.

Like you I am hoping for a strong finish to the season. The snow that we got yesterday will make the mud bad for the open house weekend but I think we will be thankful for it 2 weeks from now. I have a feeling that we will be making syrup well into April here. My trees aren't showing any signs of budding yet. 21gpt sounds good. I haven't had the time to figure mine out but I'm sure it isn't even close to what you have gotten.

[Amber Gold]

Russ, the sap goddess was kind to me earlier this season, and hopefully she is for the next couple of weeks. I'm into record keeping, so everything goes into excel and it makes it easy to tally up this kind of stuff. Thinking about putting my sap collection records to a graph and see how each season's daily runs compare to each other.

Usually, it's too warm and we don't have any sap to boil for maple weekend, this year it's too cold and we don't have any sap...can't win. Hopefully we can put together a few hundred gallons so we can at least boil all day Saturday. I don't think we're running the RO, at least on Saturday, hopefully on Sunday we can get 1500 gal so we can.

[red maples]

yes I waited to boil until today and might boil a little tomorrow. sap is still coming slow. there is still snow stuck to the side of the trees. and lots of mud for the weekend!!! trying to get some snow cleared away for parking!!!

I am about 10 gpt. Been a rough go here to get sap. And still haven't had a really good run yet!!! lucky guy with 21gpt. I would have been out of wood if I got that much but should be going into april here maybe at the least we'll go to next weekend.

[Dill]

The sap is running! The sap is running!
Well kinda, there is a bit more a trickle coming in the releaser. But no tsunami by any stretch.

[Russell Lampron]

If the sap keeps ebbing in at the pace that it is now I will have enough to boil Saturday. I'm taking a different approach this year. I am going to do a single pass through the RO and boil until the sap is gone. Once that's done I will run it through the filter press and can it. If I am done boiling before the day is done so be it. I'm not going to clean out my wood shed to simmer sap all day.

[MapleLady]

It's beginning to run over here! Slow, but most taps are wet. Big improvement over yesterday! Hope this is a good sign!

[Greyfox]

It's beginning to run over here! Slow, but most taps are wet. Big improvement over yesterday! Hope this is a good sign!

Same here; getting a trickle but that's better than the ice sculpture that I've had for the past week! The week ahead looks awesome! I think we're in for the best run of the year from Sunday through Thursday of this week. Good luck all.

Doc