We had another week of overnight freezes that extended the maple season – got about 40 gallons of maple sap and 10 gallons of walnut sap. We boiled it all in a single day, and finished it this morning. We added another 3/4 of a gallon of maple syrup and a little over a pint of walnut syrup. Half of the buckets have been collected. We’ve got more buckets, taps, and ratchet straps to collect … but maple season is over for 2025.
We finished boiling the sap today — three gallons of maple syrup and about half a gallon of black walnut syrup.
We’ve got 38 maple trees (48 taps) and 10 black walnut trees (12 taps) – the first collection was 38 gallons of maple sap and 16 gallons of black walnut sap.
We finished our first batch of maple syrup — about 3.25 gallons completed boiling last night and have been bottled and sealed today.
This is the final sap collection for our first run of maple syrup — and a bunch of little fish in the river.
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?
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.
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.
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
A total of about 6 gallons of syrup this year — 3.5 gallons on the 6th of March and another 2.5 gallons on the 5th of April. We tapped 39 trees (some with two taps — we need to log the type of tree & how many taps get put in!) including some on the new farm land.