This year’s warmer winter temperatures have allowed some maple syrup producers across the U.S. to begin tapping their trees as much as two months early.
This year I took over the boil and it was a data driven season. I began work in July 2021 when I designed and ordered parts for a home-built reverse osmosis sap concentration system (RO). The design was based heavily off of the work Dan Roseum did to make his RO. Check it out on...
Sprague's Maple syrup is made from pure maple sap, collected from sugar maple trees in very late winter and early spring. The sap is a very dilute liquid containing from 1% to 7% sugar, varying from tree to tree and usually averaging around 2% sugar. It takes approximately 40 gallons of ...
Reverse osmosis is the same process used to desalinate ocean water, only with maple sap the concentrated sugar is kept to boil and the pure water is the waste. Ultraviolet lights are used to kill the bacteria in the concentrated sap to increase the quality of the pure maple syrup produced....
There are maybe a dozen or so sugar maples on our property so enough for home scale but I think I may try my hand at birch syrup since that is one of the predominant species on the land here. I don't know if I want to gather that much firewood though... http://www.greenshire...
Sap from a sugar maple drips into a bucket. Like most men, I am loathe to ask directions, be it to the highway entrance, to assembling a gas grill, or how to make maple syrup. Asking shows weakness; it shows dependence; it means that you probably actually liked those flowered gardening...