Sugar time

[Livewater Farm]

hi all I approach sugaring the same way as making milk quality quality quality clean equipment fast boil prpoer packaging the more light syrup I can make the better the public is so uesd to fake dark pancake
junk all they think of is black syrup my mind lighter the better lightmaple flavor for use in everything
Bill

[jac]

By the time your syrup lands over here guys {and im not even sure if its the good stuff} .. its over $100 a gallon !!!!!

[mitchmaine]

April fools day. And no foolin’ we are getting socked. No’theast wind and a foot of wet heavy snow on 6”wet mud with no bottom. But right in the middle of one of the best runs we have had in years. A gallon and a half per bucket per day for four days. Eleven or twelve gallons syrup each day for us. And a good medium to boot.
Taking the day to bottle syrup and clean and wash up. Two neighbors trucks stuck in our fields pulling over to pass. Looks like they have been abandoned for a spell. Looks like we have weather for another week or ten days. Firewood is the next challenge. We are going through it pretty fast. May have to start ripping sheathing off the sugarhouse.
Hope everyone is well and happy and making sugar.

mitch

[Mark Cowdrey]

No foolin’, hunh?
We have moved our “shoot for” from 300 to 425, we are at about 375 now without much sign of quit in the forecast. Wood will be the challenge. Making a nice light Dark with good flavor.
Mark

[Jim Garvin]

Mark;

I have some seasoned sugar wood if you run short. Let me know.

Jim

[mitchmaine]

Let the horses out this morning, and bear and I walked out across the pasture to the sugarbush. The horses were a little banged up and I sure am beat up, none of my friends return my calls, and penny isn’t looking me in the eye anymore, so I guess our season is over. We have about two armloads of wood left in the shed, and the sap is below two percent. I looked into the first pail and it was half full. So was the next, so I took the pail down and threw the sap out onto the ground and said the devil with you. The dog and I stretched out on a large flat rock in the sun and it sure felt good to do nothin’. But I made the mistake of hanging the pail back up and all I could hear was tunk, tunk, tunk………

nice thread erika, thanks for starting this one. mitch

[dominiquer60]

We had hopes of last week being good sap weather, and we thought it was but the sap did not. We yielded much better than last year, which took little effort, but only made it half way to our best year. All in all it was good. I took the team out last week and worked up the first garden patch for the season, sap not flowing was a welcomed progression of the season. It was a fun thread, I always learn a little from the annual sugar thread, thanks for joining us.

Erika

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