We tap 10 sugar maple tree's and collected about 15 gallons of sap... Saturday we boiled down 6 gallons in which took 7 hours and got about 12oz of Maple syrup which taste fantastic however while finishing it off I overcooked it and it's a bit thick... we are going to take the remain 9 gallons over to some friends on friday and boil it down in their large evaporator and learn about the process a little more in hope's to build a 'sugar shack' out in our wood next year as Steve really doesn't want to haul 75 pounds of maple syrup in a backpack again... the terrian of our wood's doesn't not allow for a ATV or tractor to get out to where our sugar maples are and that the 18 inches of snow that was still out in the wood this past weekend... Maple Syruping is a lot more work than we anticipated!!! Anyway we will be moving on to animals here as it warms up and I am looking foward to that!!
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fresh maple syrup- yum!
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