After several weeks of hard work carrying buckets of sap, boiling for hours, filtering, and canning – the sugaring season is over. It’s certainly labor intensive and it […]
Maple Syrup
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When To Pull The Taps – How To Know When Maple Syrup Season Is Over
As spring draws near, the end of maple syrup season is close. If this is your first season tapping trees, you may be unsure of what to look […]
Maple Syrup
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How Does Snow Affect Maple Sap Flow? And Other Sap Flow Intricacies
We had a huge warm up today following the 8 inches of snow we received over the weekend, the temperature went from 28F (-2C) up to 60F (15C) […]
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A Late Winter Storm, Snow Fun, And Frozen Sap
After we’d had several warm days of what we refer to as ‘fool’s spring,’ we were hit with 8 inches of snow a couple of days ago. The […]
Beekeeping / Black Walnut Syrup / Chickens / Homesteading / Maple Syrup
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Birds, Bees, and Trees
Today was an unusually warm day for February in Ohio, topping out at a balmy 60F. It feels like Spring has come early, and perhaps it has, only […]
Black Walnut Syrup / Maple Syrup
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Help! I overboiled my syrup!
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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Anticipation
Winter. It has always been a struggle for me. I’m more of a warm weather person. Driving in snow and ice, freezing every time I step outside, the […]