If you can come join us April 27th at Maplefest in Perth Ontario always a superb day.
Maple Fest Perth ontario
If you can come join us April 27th at Maplefest in Perth Ontario always a superb day.
Homemade 46 by 26 wood boiler with two polished stainless pans
Home made sugar shack with Caputo Rooftop
15 gallon pre-heater tank with a circulating copper pipe stack heater.
two 45 gallon storage tanks with transfer pumps
150 taps (buckets)
Arctic Cat Prowler
Two big reds with bucket holders to collect the sap
Good wife to assist me
Getting sweeter one drop at a time.
We'll have our booth set up in front of the Bank of Montreal - same spot every year! We're one of 2 producers who have never missed the Festival - except 1998 because we didn't make any syrup due to the ice storm.
5,000 Taps on vacuum
9,400 gallons storage
3 tower CDL RO
3.5'x14' Lapierre Force 5
10" CDL Wesfab Filter Press
Twitter & Instagram: @ennismaple
www.ennismaple.com
Aw pooh, I'll be on the other side of the country during that time. Dang. And ennismaple thanks, you basically just answered a question I was going to ask - what was 1998 like in terms of sugaring? I can only imagine how hectic things must have been.
Been tapping since 2008.
2018 - 17 taps/7 trees...819l sap, approx 28l syrup
2019 - 18 taps/8 trees...585l sap, 28l syrup...21:1 ratio
2020 - 18 taps/8 trees...890.04l sap...gave away about 170l, 30l snafu'd....23l total for me from approx 690l
2021 - 18 taps/8 trees...395l sap, 12 l syrup
2022 - 18 taps/8 trees....7 sugars 1 red due to #2 having surgery so had the season off....582l sap, 18.5l syrup
2023 - 18 taps/8 trees...all sugars again. 807l sap, so far approx 14l syrup
We will be at booth 152 Market Square www.gardenscene.ca
Homemade 46 by 26 wood boiler with two polished stainless pans
Home made sugar shack with Caputo Rooftop
15 gallon pre-heater tank with a circulating copper pipe stack heater.
two 45 gallon storage tanks with transfer pumps
150 taps (buckets)
Arctic Cat Prowler
Two big reds with bucket holders to collect the sap
Good wife to assist me
Getting sweeter one drop at a time.
What a great day at Maple Fest last Saturday
even with bad weather in the morning we over sold our expectations
Thank You
Homemade 46 by 26 wood boiler with two polished stainless pans
Home made sugar shack with Caputo Rooftop
15 gallon pre-heater tank with a circulating copper pipe stack heater.
two 45 gallon storage tanks with transfer pumps
150 taps (buckets)
Arctic Cat Prowler
Two big reds with bucket holders to collect the sap
Good wife to assist me
Getting sweeter one drop at a time.
I didn't get down to the new Market Square area because I was too busy talking to all the other producers while we waited for the crowds to show up! The afternoon was good.
Our sales were down this year - partly because of the weather and partly because there were 17 maple producers there and the sales get spread thinner. We've been there some years when there are only 8 of us.
We were happy with our contest entries which included 1st for light syrup (2 years running), 2nd for granulated sugar and 3rd for maple butter. If our medium entry hadn't been disqualified for not being dark enough we might have had a chance at reserve champion. The way the syrup entries are judged it's like a game of chicken - whomever can get the closest to the line that separates two colour classes without going over gets full points for colour, with 2nd lightest getting 29 points, 3rd is 28, etc... Kinda silly but those are the rules.
5,000 Taps on vacuum
9,400 gallons storage
3 tower CDL RO
3.5'x14' Lapierre Force 5
10" CDL Wesfab Filter Press
Twitter & Instagram: @ennismaple
www.ennismaple.com
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