We thought it was about time that we introduced our sap truck driver!

Chet spent his career driving heavy machinery in the construction industry. Now that he is retired he enjoys spending his free time fishing as well as helping out his nephew Jake during maple season by driving the sap truck. He is the proud father of two daughters and grandfather of four grandkids.

What a month we’ve had, it feels like March weather! We started tapping on February 6th and currently have 19,680 taps in, only 3,000 left to go. Due to the warm temperatures we’ve been leak checking heavily while tapping. We want as little oxygen in the lines as possible during these warm days to slow tap hole healing. We’ve boiled twice so far and made 1,400 gallons of amber/golden syrup!

This post is a little late but last month we prepped all of our taps with new spouts while fixing damaged lines. This month we’ve been hard at work tapping! While we’d love to have 100% of our taps in for this sap run we’re not too worried, the trees we tap last will produce more sap later in the season and should offset the early season days they’ve missed.