It’s on. We collected about 300 gallons of sap today on our partially-tapped bush up in Strafford. Tomorrow we’ll tap the Thetford Center location. I’d boil and make some maple syrup, but tomorrow I’ll have to run up to Fletcher, Vermont to pick up a used reverse osmosis unit. Without it we’d have to boil [...]

Much going on to get ready for the season. As ever, weather reports make me think that season will break early and leave me behind, but there’s always something to ruin the weather, be it heavy wind or temps just too hot or too cold. Maple syrup comes only with the dance of warm days [...]