The end of the sap season came for our sugarbush on March 12th. The weather last week and two weeks ago has been unseasonably warm and without the cold nights to go along with the warm days the sap flow stopped. The stop was so sudden it was amazing. We went from getting 10 gallons […]
Well after getting dumped on with over a foot of snow and a day of cold in the teens, we have now gone to the other weather extreme hitting 60.2 degrees here today. The snow pack is starting to melt, and the sap is flowing. Collected 8.5 gallons between last Sunday and Monday. Tuesday was […]
The syrup stash. Been a slow week or so. Sap flow had been minimal since the record flow of 7.625 gallons on February 22nd. I had only collected 2.5 gallons of sap the following 5 days until an odd day yesterday. I went out after dinner to find 4.5 gallons of sap bringing my six […]
