I had grand plans to be boiling down maple sap during winter break from the school but there's no sap to boil down! Or not enough anyway. The weather looked hopeful a couple weeks back and I started tapping trees but the weather has not been right most days. We've had some warm ups but not enough and the temperatures have plunged right back down to well below freezing again. I have 9 taps in the trees but only gathered about 8 gallons of sap so far and that was all from 2 decent days. the other days the sap hasn't been running at all and everything is frozen. I hope it will just be a late season not a short season, we will see. So much depends on the weather with various homesteading things.
KitKat helps me to get the maple trees tapped.
Some of the maple trees we tap are in the fenced farmyard, the chickens and ducks are interested.
The chickens line up to watch from afar as they don't want to walk on the snow.
The ducks don't mind the snow and get up close for the best view of the interesting proceedings.
The maple trees have been tapped for a couple weeks now but only a bucket and a half to show for it, maybe 8 gallons of sap so far. We won't start boiling until we have several more buckets filled and sap flowing regularly.
Maple syrup and candy will have to wait.
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