Our brand new Bambu Labs X1C 3D printer arrived this week! Last winter we made some custom candy molds with a very simple printer, but this new one has way more capabilities. It can print larger objects, more accurately, faster, and with a variety of materials. It’s even capable of switching material/colors mid-print, carbon-fiber strengthened plastics included. We have lots of cool ideas to try out for the maple farm, we’ll post more later.

We finished installing and testing our new sap filter for the 2025 season! The system will process 60 gallons of sap per minute, allowing us to immediately filter any sap that comes into our tanks before sending it to the reverse osmosis. This should lead to higher quality syrup, especially later in the year when it gets warm, and savings in disposable RO filters. We’ll also eliminate our bag filters coming into the tank, which never really did a good enough job and required frequent changes/washings.

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We’ve been playing around with Amazon’s View in 3D/Room feature this fall. For fun we scanned in one of our maple syrup jugs and maple cream containers, and are in the process of scanning in the rest. The Amazon app lets you see the product in 3D, both with it’s own viewer and in augmented reality mode where you can place it anywhere in your room!