Not sugaring this year (unless I visit a friend or two) but I thought I would post a couple of pictures from sugaring in Cornish, NH in 2005 and 2006. With the Fitch family we tapped 50 trees or so and built a barrel boiler with stainless steel pan. We made it real easy to boil when you wanted to and to go to bed when you wanted to do that. Here is Graham checking out the gear and a second photo of sleigh rides in 2006. I think we tried collecting sap with the Fitch's horses at least once, but mostly we walked and used a truck.
Jim Fitch is going all out this year. Hopefully he will post his experiences! The weather here in Cumberland, MD suggests a short and sweet sugaring season, but my only evidence is the temperature (now staying above freezing at night pretty regularly) and the good flow coming down the few sugar maples in my woods. Graham likes to go lick the bottom of the trees. By the time the sap gets down there it has evaporated some and is usually pretty sweet. He calls them "licking trees."
Not sugaring this year (unless I visit a friend or two) but I thought I would post a couple of pictures from sugaring in Cornish, NH in 2005 and 2006. With the Fitch family we tapped 50 trees or so and built a barrel boiler with stainless steel pan. We made it real easy to boil when you wanted to and to go to bed when you wanted to do that. Here is Graham checking out the gear and a second photo of sleigh rides in 2006. I think we tried collecting sap with the Fitch's horses at least once, but mostly we walked and used a truck.
Jim Fitch is going all out this year. Hopefully he will post his experiences! The weather here in Cumberland, MD suggests a short and sweet sugaring season, but my only evidence is the temperature (now staying above freezing at night pretty regularly) and the good flow coming down the few sugar maples in my woods. Graham likes to go lick the bottom of the trees. By the time the sap gets down there it has evaporated some and is usually pretty sweet. He calls them "licking trees."
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