The Maple Syrup Experiment.

[earthmother]

We ended up with 3 1/2 gallons of syrup!!!

http://lostincalhouncounty.wordpress.com/2009/03/17/sugaring-in-calhoun-county/

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[lilbear]

That was very interesting.How long does the whole process take earthmother???

[Fyrenza]

i'm so jealous!!!

i don't think we can grow that type of maple, down here... :(

[earthmother]

Well, we collected sap twice a day, when it ran good-about 30 gal. for the day. (we tapped 30 trees) After first collection, about 1:00 in the afternoon we started boiling and added the second collection later. It would be all done by noon the next day... There were 4 of us working on it, sometimes more, so folks could go to sleep in shifts. We used RED maples, because that's mostly what grows here...

[hippiehillbilly]

thats a lot better than our half a cup..lol

ah well we aint really got the weather here to get the sap runnin good and we only actually tapped two trees.. maybe next year we will get a quart..lol