We had one last boil on Saturday. We dialed the RO waaaaay back and pushed 2500 gallons of sap through the membranes for about 4 hours before firing up. I went to go pull taps and wash one bush with 450 taps just after we started to send concentrate to the feed tank. By the time I got back my brother had maybe 50 gallons left to boil! The auto-runoff was open more than it was closed for those 2 hours. The syrup was definitely in the very dark category (18 LT) but still tasted great! We will have no problem selling that as table syrup. We pushed 300 gallons of permeate through behind the concentrate and boiled until we couldn't get any more runoffs.

Yesterday we drained the pans and filled them with 300 gallons of sap so they can sit for a month. The RO got put away and we managed to pull another 750 taps in the afternoon. All the drums are back are in the basement at the house (is my back ever sore!) and you can finally turn around without running into something in the camp. We will get the rest of the taps pulled and washed this weekend.

Some seasons you are sad to see the end - but not this year!!!!