Hello folks With firewood done for the year and the setup in hibernation, Dave and I have been relaxing as much as the off season allows. But it won’t last long. We have acquired some things to upgrade the operation. There should be some interesting posts coming up. Enjoy Mike
Well we finished up on April 06, the official end of the season for Sap To Syrup’s inaugural year. What a blast. This syrupin isn’t so bad. It went by so fast we didn’t have time to go visit any of the other producers and see how things were in other bushes. But I did talk with [...]
Hello Happy syrup making to everyone. We are indeed making maple syrup this year! Our first batch that was pulled of turned out to be about 20L, not bad for about 3 days work. I have been pretty sick after getting back from the Island and when I finally was feeling better I had to [...]
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 [...]
First full day in the bush and Mike and I are stoked. Started off kind of bad as the plan we had come up with was rendered futile. We wanted to keep busy so bad that we ended up starting to work before we knew what to work on. I leaned how to weld which [...]
Alright so I’m sitting here, procrastinating really, getting ready to write a business plan for our Sugarbush. There’s been a lot of stuff happening in recent days. Mike and Steph (Mike’s fiancee) have successfully cut split and piled 15 cords and wood which will be our fuel this year. This is a definite load off [...]
Found a nice video on youtube. At the beginning of the video it looks like they are filming birch trees rather than sugar maples but you be the judge. I remember going to seeing Gorden Lightfoot in Orillia it was a great concert but I am not the biggest fan. Orillia was also a bit [...]