2014 Syrup Season is Near!

It's about that time again!  For the past several weekends we have been contemplating if it's time to tap the trees....but every week brings a forecast of more cold temps, so we've been patient and have not tapped yet.  It looks like by the end of next week, things start warming-up.  Our plan is to have all the trees tapped by next Saturday, 3/29.  Last year was a similar late Spring.  The first day we collected sap was April 4, and it was a tremendous year!  Let's hope for a repeat season.

Thank you, Trees!

We had such a great season!  We'll finish with 500+ gallons of syrup, which is a record year for us.  We officially thanked the trees yesterday as we pulled the taps.  Still have a few busy weekends to wrap things up with bottling this weekend and collecting and washing the buckets from the woods the following weekend.  Enjoyed our visitors at the Shack this year.  Makes a sometimes exhausting season "fun."

Still Collecting

We continue to collect 500-600+ gallons every day this week, and have been cooking every night for 18 days straight.  The trees are still running, but this weekend's 70-degree temps will definitely change the quality of the sap.  We'll cook through the weekend if you want to stop up and visit.

Steam's Roll'n

We are most definitely cooking tonight, Fri. Visitors welcome.

Cooking This Weekend!

The week has been busy enough collecting that we KNOW we'll be cooking this weekend.  We collected 1400 gallons on Monday, 800 gallons on Tuesday, and 500 gallons Wednesday.  More snow coming likely means MORE sap!  We're ready. 

WHEW!

We collected 1400 gallons of sap yesterday.  We haven't had a season like this since 2009.  The weather looks perfectly cooperative this week and next.  We're so excited! 

HAPPY TREES!

Yesterday we collectd 500+ gallons (in the rain).  Not our most pleasant collecting day.  Today we went at noon and filled the gator twice (300 gallons), and will be going back when the kids get home from school.  There's probably another 500 gallons to collect.  Wahooo!!  We'll be cooking steady every evening this week.