Wow, it’s been a crazy month! Mother nature decided that we were going to have an early start to the season despite the fact that we needed a couple more weeks to get everything totally ready. We worked through the days and nights (literally tapping with headlamps) and made 350 gallons of syrup, with another 50 or so ready to come out of the evaporator as soon as we get some more sap to push it through. We meant to post more pictures but haven’t had time, we’re finally now able to breath due to the cold weather but even now we’re working on our getting our custom bottles printed. Stay tuned for more!

We’re finally full swing into the season now, over the last week and a half we’ve tapped 5500 out of 7500 trees and collected ~20,000 gallons of sap! We ran into a few hiccups getting the evaporator and reverse osmosis unit operating, but they’re working great now and we plan on boiling a second time tonight. We should have ~100 gallons worth of syrup in the tanks and another ~100 gallons worth of syrup currently in the evaporator, so it should be an exciting boil! Stay tuned for lots and lots of pictures when we get a free moment.

Our releaser is plugged in and vacuum pump working with variable frequency  controller! Looks like we’ll start tapping Tuesday, it’s hard to believe after a half year of nonstop work we’ll actually be making syrup this week!