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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Friday February 20, 2009 - By Chris
Here is a photo that my Uncle sent me after I mentioned one of my Grandfather's paintings in a previous post. I am not sure when he painted this one, but the one below of him actually painting is from 1963. I imagine that Grandpa painted the snowy...
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Wednesday February 18, 2009 - By Chris
It's back into the woods to start gathering sap. It's been still pretty cold at night--it got down to 10 here last night--but the sun is doing its work during the day and there is sap to be gathered. Here's Liev making his way across our smaller...
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Tuesday February 17, 2009 - By Chris
For the past two days we have been trekking back and forth from the woods, hauling in planks to get across small brooks, hauling in tapping supplies, and hauling back our two children when they are finally ready to go inside.
We have a series of photos to...
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Monday February 16, 2009 - By Chris
The new evaporator is here! Erica went up to New Hampshire Friday evening--returning at midnight--to pick up the supplies.
With the help of my father, who put in some solid work while keeping strong hold of his advisory role, we assembled the...
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Wednesday February 04, 2009 - By Chris
It looks like it will be just about time to tap the maple trees here in Connecticut this weekend. We are expecting highs in the 40's and lows in the 20's for a week or so. This will be perfect to get the sap flowing in the trees. As we...
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Tuesday January 20, 2009 - By Chris
After last week's cold snap, everyone was talking about frozen pipes and frozen noses. But that sort of cold weather reminds us that sugaring season is not too far away from us here in Eastern CT.
It's just about time to start setting up the...
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