I don’t think I’ve seen this in the maple syrup literature, so I figured I’d just put it out there to see if others have noticed this vacuum effect.
We found that we were losing vacuum on our mainlines in our major bush. This happened steadily over a period of about a week in the middle [...]
Our friend Chris Rimmer and some friends of his took a walk in the sugarbush to look for birds several months after the maple syrup season. They found 40 species:
Hooded Merganser
Virginia Rail
Barred Owl
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Hairy Woodpecker
Eastern Wood-Pewee
Alder Flycatcher
Least Flycatcher
Eastern Phoebe
Eastern Kingbird
Blue-headed Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo
Blue Jay
Black-capped Chickadee
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Winter Wren
Hermit Thrush
American Robin
Nashville Warbler
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Magnolia Warbler
Black-throated Blue Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)
Black-throated [...]
The Vermont Center for Ecostudies‘ Steve Faccio, along with the Upper Valley Land Trust’s Amber Boland helped organize a pretty amazing vernal pool walk at our Strafford bush right after the maple syrup season. A crowd of 40 or so people trekked over the maple and not-so-maply bits of the 212 acres, visiting several vernal [...]
Ian, I’m sorry to hear that your maple syrup season looks to be about as poor as ours.
On 2356 taps, we’ve made 391 gallons of maple syrup so far. If the season stalls and stops (weather predictions are discouraging) this is pretty bad. We have this much largely due to our vacuum system. Locals without [...]
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 [...]