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This is Pretty Sappy
This is our third year of boiling maple sap for syrup. The first year, we scored about 25 gallons of sap from a friend who just couldn’t bear to boil another drop. We drove to her place, collected the buckets, … Continue reading
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I’d Like to Tap That
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Hmm… could be anything, really. Back at the end of September, I wrote about our time spent marking the sugar maples on our property. It was a stroke of genius on our part, since it…
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I’d Like to Tap That
Back at the end of September, I wrote about our time spent marking the sugar maples on our property. It was a stroke of genius on our part, since it is REALLY difficult to determine tree types when they are … Continue reading
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Tagged applewood farm, boiling sap, buckets, freezing temperatures, hooks, leaves, maple syrup, sap, sap flow, spiles, sugar maples, syrup, tapping trees, trees
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Marking the Sugar Maples
When the trees lining our driveway start to look like this, we know that winter is not too far away. Before the leaves fall off the trees, we wanted to be sure to mark our sugar maples. Come springtime, … Continue reading
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