Maple syrup and other homemade delicious maple syrup products made in southern Finger Lakes close to Watkins Glen.
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.
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...
As I mentioned, maple sap becomes maple syrup by ridding it of water. And while big operations now employ reverse osmosis to partially concentrate the sap, making maple syrup always involves boiling the sap. And boiling some more. And boiling still more. It takes about 40 gallons of sap boi...
this operation employs a modern reverse osmosis concentrator and oil-fired evaporator. View antique maple-producing tools on display. This country store features local gifts, maple products, apple butter, birch syrup, pottery, jams, cookbooks, old-fashioned homemade bar soap, handmade rugs, and muc...