Quick post since we’ve been extremely busy the last several weeks. On Monday we had our first boil and made 550 gallons of great tasting syrup. No early run golden like we were hoping for due to 50+ degree sap and a few hiccups along the way, hopefully the weather cools off  and we can reset for the next batch. We should have all of our taps in tomorrow, then on to our second pass leak checking.

The 2024 season has officially started, today we started drilling at our home property! We intended to start last week but decided to postpone due to the wind, precipitation, and warm temperatures. All spouts/droplines have been prepped and mainlines have been walked so we should progress faster than usual. With any luck we’ll have all of our taps in this year before we even started last year (February 6th)!

If you’ve ordered maple candy this holiday season, you may have noticed something different in your box. In addition to the standard small and large maple leaf shapes, we now have our own custom Nova candy mold! Back in October we 3d printed ~75 plastic copies and set them in two part silicone. We currently have three mold sheets that we use with every batch.

In other news we’re finishing up prepping in the woods right now. If the weather cooperates we’ll start tapping next week!