Beautiful. I love every season in turn. Winter is long where I live, and baby season can be nice or snowy and frozen. I love the time I spend in this season visiting my ladies and wonder what spring will bring.
We put buckets out in January and leave them until end of February. There may be only three or four days of good flow weather...every other week. So the trick here in our part of Missouri is to catch it when we can. The more buckets the better when the sap window is so narrow. We boiled 60 gal of sap with a neighbor. Thats about a gal and a half of syrup. And this coming weekend looks like another window of opportunity. There is nothing better than home syruping. It's now a family tradition. We like a traditional drink of sap after filtering ( but not too much as its too precious) and the grandsons call it Indian water. Sugaring is extremely simple and we have so much dead ash laying around that fuel is no problem. A gallon of syrup a year is a lot, to be honest. Cheers to you.
You are always so good at capturing the feelings of the season. Beautiful. I run a nature school for homeschoolers on our 3 acres and tapping our Silver Maples and Black Walnuts has been an awe-inspiring act. Never enough sap to make sugar but teas and some delicious apple/pear core vinegars/sodas have filled our bellies. Hope you get some time out in the woods soon.
"I am simultaneously bogged down in details and overwhelmed by the enormity of everything."
This description stopped me in my tracks because it so perfectly sums up the struggle in my own brain. Though I enjoyed the discussion of sugaring, that line made me feel a little less alone today.
Beautiful. I love every season in turn. Winter is long where I live, and baby season can be nice or snowy and frozen. I love the time I spend in this season visiting my ladies and wonder what spring will bring.
We put buckets out in January and leave them until end of February. There may be only three or four days of good flow weather...every other week. So the trick here in our part of Missouri is to catch it when we can. The more buckets the better when the sap window is so narrow. We boiled 60 gal of sap with a neighbor. Thats about a gal and a half of syrup. And this coming weekend looks like another window of opportunity. There is nothing better than home syruping. It's now a family tradition. We like a traditional drink of sap after filtering ( but not too much as its too precious) and the grandsons call it Indian water. Sugaring is extremely simple and we have so much dead ash laying around that fuel is no problem. A gallon of syrup a year is a lot, to be honest. Cheers to you.
You are always so good at capturing the feelings of the season. Beautiful. I run a nature school for homeschoolers on our 3 acres and tapping our Silver Maples and Black Walnuts has been an awe-inspiring act. Never enough sap to make sugar but teas and some delicious apple/pear core vinegars/sodas have filled our bellies. Hope you get some time out in the woods soon.
The ice is melting as we speak... but probably tomorrow.
🙌🏻💖
"I am simultaneously bogged down in details and overwhelmed by the enormity of everything."
This description stopped me in my tracks because it so perfectly sums up the struggle in my own brain. Though I enjoyed the discussion of sugaring, that line made me feel a little less alone today.
It really sucks that you don't have sugar maples in your area. They are the best!