05. March 2020

We collected just enough sap for a “priming boil” - but not enough to make syrup yet. After showers, temperatures dropped and the sap slowed to a small trickle. The camp smelled like spring for awhile! Now we wait for more sap....

28. February 2020

Scott is up in the woods again, tapping. We were discussing this morning how most other producers in this area have done their first boil already...but they are on vacuum systems, as far as we know, while we rely completely on gravity for our our sap to run. In addition, we’re that much higher in altitude - even compared to Earltown itself - and we tend to experience a few degrees lower than everyone else. That’s ok. We’ll get there. The sap will run in its own time and we’ll be ready.

24. February 2020

After what has felt like a long, cold winter, tapping has begun😃

08. February 2019

Time to do repairs🔨. Scott’s been up in the woods these days checking for breaks and replacing drop lines where needed. Conditions are great. Definitely icy in spots and he still needs snowshoes, but it’s definitely good going. The storms this year brought down a few trees, including some of our mainline supports😫The system is showing its age this year. We’ll have to replace those supports with more permanent poles, but not til after the sugar season. Otherwise....things are looking...

02. March 2016

8:20 pm Awesome run and boil today! Scott just got home. Cleaned up the tanks and left with the sap running hard - about 10" an hour. A bit of supper and then back down to check again. It's supposed to get very cold by around midnight, gradually dropping to minus 7 by around 1 am. So the sap will slow and eventually stop. How much will we have in the tanks tomorrow? Don't know. We do know that they'll be back at it tomorrow. Samara? She had enough energy to actually play this afternoon for...

19. April 2015

9:15 am Firing up at 11 am today! Bob Williams (our mentor and original owner of the farm before 1994) will be firing today - a treat! How does the coming week look for sap? We'll see...but the nighttime temps don't look very cold at this point. We really would love to see minus 5.