Well this being my first year up and running as my own farm I figured Id get an early start on the 2015 updates. This weather has been odd. Almost went out and tapped a few trees earlier just to see. Never did though. Just Finished walking and cleaning up the woods. There was quite a mess out there. Now we are on to adding taps this week. My releaser tank is 1500ft from the road so the past 5 years I have been using a generator to pump the sap out. Finally this year we are running power!!! No more generator and I can have my vacuum right at the releaser now. Very excited about that. I am using clear cv's again this year for all my old drops and regular clear spouts for the new drops. For me I have been very happy with the cv's. My gal/tap has been very good I think. Especially for my vacuum being 1500ft from the releaser. I just cant see trying something new when I am very happy with what I have. It is funny though because a producer just a mile from me has a hard time with the cv's. More than half their spouts pop out in the beginning of the season and they have to go reseat them. The only thing different for them is they are 100ft higher in elevation. I am just waiting for the roof jacks to show up and the sugarhouse will be complete! We are getting very excited for the season. Glad to see cold temps coming!

~Stefan~