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A New Enemy In Our Midst

June 19, 2010

A new enemy has emerged for Maple Syrup producers. It sneaks into the sugar bush without the producers knowledge, it takes hold of the precious nutrients in the soil and slowly kills the team players will to produce sap, it multiplies rapidly and without warning, before anyone can do anything the invading army has imposed [...]

Lead testing part II

May 20, 2010

I have given each company I emailed  some time to respond and here are the results. The first person to email me back was Dave Lachance from lead inspector, he responded on the weekend with the following: “hello dave, thanks for the email and your inquiry. the kits would be great to test the solder [...]

sugar shack

February 12, 2010

I have had an amazing weekend up at the sugar bush. Mike has done so much work up there it blows my mind. When I arrived all the runs were completed, all the drops were in. We have a new count of 400 taps. I am incredibly happy. That being said there was still a [...]

Maple shop

January 13, 2010

This month is just flying by. Soon it will be time for the sap to flow again, I can’t wait! I had a chance to talk with Mike today about how the bush was progressing. He has been insanely busy running mainlines and I wish I was up there to help him. I have been [...]

Happy New Year

December 30, 2009

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 [...]

Sugar shack work

November 29, 2009

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 [...]

Running main lines, we’re committed now

November 28, 2009

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 [...]

Sap To Syrup Sugar Shack

November 3, 2009

Hey here are a few pics of the Sugar shack upgrades. Enjoy Mike

Videos – marking trees and mainline

November 2, 2009

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

Off dial up

October 21, 2009

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 [...]