End Nearing
One of our four properties ran a little harder than the others last night! Of course it’s the only one without a webcam on it. The sap is starting to turn blue and the syrup is foaming hard, the end is near…
One of our four properties ran a little harder than the others last night! Of course it’s the only one without a webcam on it. The sap is starting to turn blue and the syrup is foaming hard, the end is near…
Ten barrels of syrup from over 30,000 gallons of sap, now that’s a productive day!
Despite making room in our tanks yesterday and expecting a light freeze, we woke up to three of our five collection points overflowing with a fourth just inches from overflowing! It must have run hard all night. We’ve been processing sap nonstop all day and have already made 160 gallons of syrup. We should hit the 300-400+ gallon mark for the day by midnight! Now at least we know 70 degree days in February don’t mean the end of a season. Good thing our sap truck was fixed yesterday, that broken drive shaft would have been a disaster today!