Even with yesterday’s 50F degree day we still had some buckets with a little bit of ice skin on the top of the sap. I am too stingy to discard this ice for fear that I am throwing out even the tiniest bit of maple sap, despite what I have read about this ice containing […]
Our latest sugaring device. This little set-up has made filtering large quantities of maple sap a breeze. I cut the bottom off of a 5 gallon bucket. I took 4 small spring clamps that I had laying around from last year and used them to clamp filter material on the top of the bucket. Use […]
Luckily for me, I had last Friday off to prep the evaporator for our first maple sap boil last weekend. There were 2 major project on deck that needed to be completed. First was to modify my poly 35 gallon leg tank to make it a little more user friendly. For anyone familiar with these […]
