We finished our first batch of maple syrup — about 3.25 gallons completed boiling last night and have been bottled and sealed today.
Tag: 2024 Maple Season
2024 Maple Season: Still Collecting Sap
This is the final sap collection for our first run of maple syrup — and a bunch of little fish in the river.
2024 Maple Season: Flame On
We’re boiling sap — and Scott learned that the Ohio DMV system calculates expiry dates by “today but change the year”. So … you cannot register a car on Feb 29th since there is no Feb 29th next year. Maybe you could do a four-year registration?
2024 Maple Season: Sappier
Still collecting sap — the enormous tree by the river was disappointing. No sap from two taps! The big black walnut trees are producing well, but the smaller trees didn’t do anything.
2024 Maple Season: Sap Collection
We started collecting our maple sap — somewhere around 80 gallons of sap which will make 2 gallons of syrup. This is the first year we had kitten helpers – they were rather puzzled by the ratchet straps and buckets on the trees, but they enjoyed that we were playing in the woods with them. Even if they couldn’t figure out what our game was.
2024 Maple Season: Tree Tapping
We’ve got 43 maple trees and two black walnut trees tapped. 18 maples were tapped yesterday in the back woods (plus the one right by the driveway).
The big maple by the river, that I’ve been waiting to tap since we found it … had nothing! Hopefully sap starts flowing there too. The other trees, though, were drip, drip, dripping steadily
