It has been far to long since I have written about maple syrup. To tell the truth have been pretty busy. I mean, I always use that as an excuse but I really was pretty busy over the holidays. I had a huge flash site to develop please check it out, funcheez.ca. Cheese shaped like [...]
Hello Everyone Recently I found an online video on how to make maple syrup eggnog. I seemed like a nice enough recipe but what really got me was the fact the presenter was using fake maple syrup. I decided to dub over the real ingredients that she was using, enjoy. Remember there is no substitute [...]
Hello everyone Well tomorrow is a very exiting day for sap to syrup. It is the first Christmas show that I have taken part in. I am really looking forward to showcasing all our products. The Toronto Business Development Center was part of a program I was involved in. They help entrepreneurs get businesses started [...]
Today started out great. We began the day by fixing up the sugar shack. We installed a rudimentary sink drain for the sink . Mike put in some more rafter braces and cut out a few more logs. The Sugar shack looks amazing, much more wide open. We did not spend much time out in [...]
Well it has been a long time since I have posted something on the site. I am back up north for the weekend and Mike and I have a lofty goal of running all the mainline in the large part of the bush. This is about 350 taps and from now on it will called [...]
I wanted to take this time to congragulate the new maple syurp website of Tig Tillinghast for his new web design. The site looks amazing and is much easier to navigate, really an amazing job. Tig has some really great stories and ideas on his website which is why he is number one on my [...]
Hey here are a few pics of the Sugar shack upgrades. Enjoy Mike
I posted two videos a few day ago of mike and I running around in the bush marking trees and putting up main lines. As I said I would here they are Enjoy. Marking Trees Marking Main lines
Well I am back in Toronto and back on high speed internet. This makes me very very happy indeed, but of course I miss the bush. There was a ton of stuff that we accomplished over the weekend I was up north. Once I got a chance to get to know the bush I understand [...]
Well Mike and I have been incredibly busy the last few days, mostly clearing brush. Our plan is to eradicate every single balsam on the lot. We also finished layout the rest of the bush. We marked out our 500+ taps with taps with flagging tape, to good new is it was in a much [...]