Collecting - Week 2

The weather still has been less than perfect for the sap to run. Today Jake and I ventured out to collect the buckets in complete snow gear. The buckets were frozen solid -- we used a rubber mallet to free the frozen sap from the bucket. I suspect the trees ran only one day this week. We estimate that we collect 35 gallons of frozen sap. Now it's time to boil. We will jar up what we have before venturing off to DC for Abby's 12th birthday.

Collecting - Week 1

The nights have been so brutally cold (below zero) and the days barely getting above the teens, that we just haven't collected much sap at all. We are a little nervous that we may have tapped a little too late or that we just are not going to have a maple syrup season this year. Forecast for the up coming week is not giving us much hope that things will change in the near future but honestly the weather reports now a days rarely stay the same in a 24 hour period so we could see an improvement in the weather any day. Total collected as of today is 20 gallons.

2015 Maple Syrup Season Begins

We've had a significant amount of snowfall this winter, upwards of 100 inches of snow here in Gorham. This has caused a delay in getting out to tap our trees. As of right now, we still have waist high sugar snow at the base of most trees. Access is limited by snowshoeing only, but Jake has managed to tap 50 of our 100 trees so far as of March 8th.