Nothing like waking up to a giant rotten tree covered in poison ivy from a neighboring field laying across three mainlines. It also snapped a large fitting introducing a giant leak to the entire property. Timing couldn’t be worse with the sap flowing hard today, but we had it off and fixed in less than an hour. Lookin forward to firing up the evaporator this evening, lots of sap ready to boil!

We finally finished tapping all our trees today!! Final count of 22,255. Once the temps get above freezing we will turn the vacuum back on to collect mother nature’s sweet nectar!

Dexter witnessed his first boil last night. This sap is from the 7500 trees at our house that ran earlier this week. We’ll have 4000+ more from our Greenville property ready for this weekend’s run, bringing us up to half capacity.