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Cookus Interruptus -
Wednesday October 28, 2009 - By Cynthia
Whip up your baked sweet potatoes, yams or winter squash with cream cheese and maple syrup to make this sweet autumn delight from Cookus Interruptus . Frost Pumpkin Pecan Muffins , zucchini bread, carrot cake, ginger cookies or just put a swirl on...
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Hurricane Farm -
Sunday October 25, 2009 - By Chris
Last weekend we started to put the roof together for our sugar shack. It will ultimately be an open-walled pole structure to house our maple syrup evaporator. We'll be able to make much more syrup once we're able to get a roof overhead the whole...
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Portage River Farm -
Sunday October 04, 2009 - By John
As the days have begun to cool, my mind has turned toward the upcoming sugaring season with increasing regularly. Of primary concern is the fact of I have not had time to cut any firewood for use in boiling down the sap when it starts to flow in late January....
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Hurricane Farm -
Tuesday September 01, 2009 - By Chris
There are lots of new things here at the farm. We're always keeping busy...
Work has begun on the Sugar Shack. We decided that since we really enjoy the outside aspect of sugaring--especially on those sunny late-winter noons--that we'd build...
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Hurricane Farm -
Wednesday April 15, 2009 - By Chris
With the end of the maple sugarin' season come and gone, it is time to start cleaning up the pails and buckets and taps. There is lots of equipment to dismantle, carry in from the woods, and clean.
Yesterday, Erica spent 6 hours at least scrubbing,...
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Cloud's Path Farm -
Saturday April 04, 2009 - By Sally
We are celebrating mud season by staying up late into the night boiling maple syrup. This is our second year with our hobby size sugaring operation and it is getting bigger and sweeter this year. For every gallon of syrup it is said to take 40...
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Portage River Farm -
Tuesday March 31, 2009 - By John
The warm weather of mid-March has finally taken its toll. At the end of last week, the buds on the maple trees in our sugarbush began to swell and open. That is the signal that the sugaring season has reached the end as the internal chemistry of the trees...
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Hurricane Farm -
Sunday March 29, 2009 - By Chris
The sugarin' season is just about up, but here are some photos of last week's late night boil.
The whole family was out there working on making the sweet stuff, and we managed to even rig up some lights so we could see what we were doing.
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Mountain View Farm -
Friday March 27, 2009 - By Vincent and Maria
The Maple Syrup season is in full force, and what a strange season it's been. It started okay and about on time --around the 2nd week of February is average in Connecticut, but it got warm fast and then went cold for a number of weeks, completly...
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Hurricane Farm -
Thursday March 19, 2009 - By Chris
Every since we started farming--with four chickens and a rabbit--our family has been keen on lending a hand. From my dad, who chops wood, gathers sap, and gives tractor rides, to my Mom who brings really tasty spinach salads, to Erica's Mom who makes us...
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Hurricane Farm -
Friday March 13, 2009 - By Chris
It's time for an update on the maple sugarin' here in Connecticut. It's been a really busy week--with a brief trip to our favorite Phishing hole last weekend (more on this later)--but we're full scale on our maple syrup operation right now. We've...
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Milk and Honey Farm -
Wednesday March 11, 2009 - By Kerry
The sap is running! We are excited to be maple syruping for the first time this year. We couldn't believe how much sap we had this morning after a warm night. The buckets were nearly spilling over! Did you know that it takes...
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Portage River Farm -
Monday March 09, 2009 - By John
The last few days have brought us wonderfully high sap runs. Each evening when I get home from work, I head out into the woods to check the taps and carry the sap back to the house. Two nights ago as I was approaching the last tree, I noticed that one of the...
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Middle Branch Farm -
Wednesday March 04, 2009 - By Roger
Spring is slowly starting to make some headway.
Our maple trees are tapped and perhaps as soon as this weekend we'll be ready to "sweeten the pans" and start producing the first crop of the season.
If you've never been to an old...
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Portage River Farm -
Saturday February 28, 2009 - By John
This has been a weekend of steam and woodsmoke. The sap started boiling at 3:30pm on Saturday (we took the kids to a movie first). I set the sap aside and knocked off for the night at about 10:30pm. Sunday morning I had it boiling again by about 11am and have...
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Portage River Farm -
Friday February 27, 2009 - By John
Conditions must have been perfect on Thursday. When I went out into the woods on Friday morning the sap sacs were bulging heavily on the trees. The task of emptying and hauling the sap back to the house became quite a chore. Equally problematic was finding...
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Hurricane Farm -
Friday February 27, 2009 - By Chris
Update on the sap flow here in Scotland, CT. (How come they did away with the old Conn. abbreviation, by the way? I was always partial to that.)
We added 10 more taps in our new sugarbush up the road and collected the sap that ran over the...
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Hurricane Farm -
Friday February 27, 2009 - By Chris
It seems like our farm grows a bit more by the day. Last week, we had a conversation about sugaring with some folks who have 100 acres on the opposite side of town. Yesterday afternoon found us setting 50 taps in their pristine sugar...
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Hurricane Farm -
Sunday February 22, 2009 - By Chris
We fired up our new evaporator and worked on our first batch of maple syrup yesterday. We'll be finishing off a little over a gallon of syrup this morning!
We were warned by several people--both in books and in person--to NEVER let the level of the...
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