By and about the Nubanusit Neighborhood and Farm
Spring must be coming — birds are starting to sing, and sap is starting to flow.
We’ve tapped a half-dozen sugar maples around the neighborhood, with plans for boiling our first batch of syrup on Sunday.
And I’ve learned that when you’re collecting the sap, it helps to have a partner along to help out:
March brought some good days for tapping our trees. Dori scouted out appropriate sugar maples, a crew bought the equipment, drilled and set up the buckets.
Sap ran immediately, and soon there was 40 gallons in a brand new trash barrel.
Sunday dawned sunny and warm; a good fire outside and the boiling sap was on its [...]
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