Showing posts with label maple. Show all posts
Showing posts with label maple. Show all posts
Monday, February 4, 2013

The Cogs of Spring Begin to Turn - Maple Season

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In my mind, I picture a great mechanism made up of all kinds of big and little cogs fitted together - like the inside of a very intricate c...
Friday, March 23, 2012

Pulling Taps And Battling "Red Brush"

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Most of the maple taps have been pulled.  I just had one area to finish in a more remote part of the forest.  As I worked I became reacquain...
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Friday, March 16, 2012

We've Boiled Down All The Sap

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All the sap we collected is finally boiled down with a grand total of about 80 gallons of maple syrup made! A lot of it is quite dark.   Th...
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Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Crazy Maple Making Time

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Making maple syrup takes quite a long time and we're in the middle of a rush of sap, so I haven't had much time to write.  Next tim...
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Friday, March 9, 2012

1025 Gallons of Sap

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Yesterday we had a sapalooza!   I collected collected 850 gallons of sap and the person from whom we're buying sap delivered 175 gallon...
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Thursday, March 8, 2012

We Gottalotta Sap!

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300 gallons of maple sap And a lot more coming!   
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Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Will We Have Sap Today?

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This morning the thermometer shivered at 10-degrees fahrenheit.  But according to the weather channel it's supposed to get up to a balmy...
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Monday, March 5, 2012

We Finally Have Maple Syrup!

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Since we boiled sap for a long time the other day, when we started up again it didn't take very long for our condensed sap to get up to...
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Thursday, March 1, 2012

Still No Maple Syrup

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The reverse osmosis machine is finally fixed.  We ran our sap through and removed about 70% of the water.  Then we boiled and boiled the sap...
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Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Maple Production Glitches

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We collected about 300 gallons of sap yesterday, but when we tried to get our Reverse Osmosis machine started, nothing happened.  It wouldn...
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Tuesday, February 28, 2012

We Fire Up The Maple Sap Evaporator

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Yesterday was a banner day on Fitzgerald's Family Farm.  We worked on lines in the morning and in the afternoon we filled our evaporator...
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Sunday, February 19, 2012

We're Working On The Lines

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We've been cleaning up our maple lines and installing new lines in preparation for tapping the trees this next week. We run high tensi...
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Monday, February 13, 2012

NOW It Looks Like Maple Season

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We've had such an unseasonably warm winter that there wasn't a bit of snow on the ground and it felt strange to be preparing for ma...
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Sunday, January 22, 2012

Reverse Osmosis

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This unusual machine sitting in my den is a reverse osmosis machine in the process of being built.  It takes some of the water out of maple ...
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Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Bee Success(ful)!

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Today the weather warmed up enough that I could check on my bees and see if the queens got out of their little boxes.  I didn't get pict...
Thursday, March 24, 2011

Potter-Tioga Maple Weekend

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The Potter-Tioga Maple Weekend is  this  weekend, March 26th and 27th! Every spring, the Potter-Tioga Maple Producers Association open up t...
Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Snow's Last Gasp?

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I had planned to do a blog on the mud and mess we're having, but this morning I woke up to "school cancelled" and this! Ma...
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Thursday, March 17, 2011

My Cup Runneth Over...

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Well, my Cup may not be running over, but my  Maple Sap Tanks sure were! Before I got the hose on it, the sap was POURING onto the ground...
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Thursday, February 24, 2011

Sap!

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THE SAP IS RUNNING! After I got off work yesterday, I thought I would take a ride and look at my sap lines.  What a pleasant surprise! ...
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Monday, February 21, 2011

Maple Season Begins!

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Yesterday we spent the whole day tapping maple trees.  The weather cooperated and we enjoyed lovely weather (for February)! In the morni...
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