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Maple Meditations
Posted: April 4th, 2008 by Frank
It was supposed to start raining about ten this morning, so we didn’t worry about leaving the sap uncovered to cool. There was half an inch of snow on the ground (and in the sap) at six this morning. One hundred sixty five gallons boiled down to fifteen over the last two days. It’s
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Posted under Snow, Tech Stuff, farm business, maple syrup.
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Just Ducky
Posted: March 27th, 2008 by Frank
Our next expansion arrived yesterday and today: Sixteen Pekin ducks and ten Toulouse geese yesterday, 26 White Midget turkeys today. The ducks and geese spent the night in the living room while the woodstove warmed the basement. Today everyone went downstairs. They’re all set up with gamebird starter and water, on a bed of
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Posted under Bjarki, Ducks, Geese, Seed Starting, Turkeys, maple syrup.
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Spring Goes Sproing
Posted: March 23rd, 2008 by Frank
Spring is oh so slowly coming. The twice weekly storms are more rain than snow, and I can leave the hose out to water the animals. We had the same temperatures in December, but the December sun was not enough to thaw the hose in the afternoon, while the March sun does.
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Posted under Building, Chickens, Farm Life, Hatching, Horses, Planting, maple syrup.
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Maple Sunday
Posted: March 9th, 2008 by Frank
Around noon yesterday, during the last break in the rain, I brought in 24 more gallons of sap. We then spent the day watching rain and the night listening to wind. Today was cold and very windy. We fired up the evaporator first thing after breakfast and ran it till about 6:30 We boiled
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Sapped
Posted: March 8th, 2008 by Lisa
Whew. What a long day yesterday was. After Thursday’s really good sap run and all that yummy sap we collected, we finally got the evaporator together. It wasn’t too complicated, except that there wasn’t an instruction sheet or anything (grrr!), so we had bought the wrong thickness of firebrick. We decided to just put
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On Tap
Posted: February 2nd, 2008 by Lisa
We just purchased a Phaneuf Hobby Evaporator, to make maple syrup this spring. It has the capacity to handle 50 to 100 taps, and we can get a bigger pan for it if that’s not big enough, one that can handle up to 200 taps. Woo! We drove over and picked it up yesterday,
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