When you’re making maple syrup (or black walnut!), it takes hours of boiling before you arrive at your finished product. Today I’ve spent the entire day boiling. After […]
Black Walnut Syrup
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Black Walnut Syrup!
Today was a colder day than yesterday so the sap wasn’t flowing as well as I’d have liked from either the maples or the black walnuts. However, I […]
Maple Syrup
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First Maple Syrup Boil & How To Know It’s Done
After placing taps in five of our maple trees last night, I was delighted to find a decent amount of sap had collected overnight! Altogether, they filled a […]
Maple Syrup
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Start of the 2024 Maple Syrup Season!
I’d initially planned on waiting until closer to the end of February to start tapping the trees, but once I took a look at the weather this week […]
Chickens
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Why Do Chickens Take Dust Baths?
Today was a reasonably warm (for February) day. I was outside measuring maples and black walnuts to see which trees I’ll be able to tap this season, so […]
Beekeeping
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Burr Comb and A Beekeeper’s Spoils
I’m itching to get back in the hives. It’s so meditative and peaceful watching these industrious creatures move about the hive working away. Wild bees know precisely how […]
Chickens
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Basic Chicken Terminology
Scrolling though various chicken related social media can cause your head to spin with all of the different terminology. I was a bit overwhelmed when I first started […]