Portage River Farm

I've continued to watch the weather reports and have been reading the messages on Mapletrader.com from sugarmakers out there. Everyone is excited and itching to get the season started. There are reports that a few people have already begun tapping in West Virginia and Vermont.

Although the temperature this morning was -2 degrees, there is a major warm front coming through this weekend. Our forecasts are predicting highs in the 40's for at least three days starting on Saturday. From what I have read many sugarmakers in Michigan and Pennsylvania will be jumping in and I plan to be among them!

My plans for surgarin' this spring are crude but will hopefully be successful. The steam table pan that I purchased arrived yesterday. Tonight I'm going to go move my old woodstove to our farm and start getting things set up out behind the house.

If all goes well, we will have taps set and sap dripping by Saturday afternoon! We'll take lots of pictures and post them to the website under: Farm Tour\Sugarbush.