Winter/Spring 2022 – We are setting up to make make maple syrup here on Morningside Farm for the first time in a couple of years. Very exciting! Work started last fall, cleaning the sap shed and pans, holding tanks, etc. This winter we repaired lines and tubing, and last weekend, we tapped trees. We will be posting notes on progress as we move through the season, so you can check back here to follow along if you would like to. Of course, we wish you could be here to smell the delicious aroma of steam coming off the evaporator – and to lend a hand should you be so inclined. Meanwhile, you can pray for good weather and strong sap flows over the next few weeks and maybe plan a visit next summer for a big pancake breakfast!

Feb 27 Phoebe and Isaac join in on tapping. Isaac thinks we tapped about 70 trees! 

March 6 First good run. Get a full barrel of sap at bottom of sugarbush!

March 9 Isaac and Bruce transfer sap from barrels at bottom of sugarbush to sap shed at top of hill.

Isaac brings sap into sap shed holding tank, prepares fire in evaporator!

March 13 Phoebe and Isaac drawing off (after many hours of boiling)! 40 gallons of sap to yield one gallon of syrup. That’s a lot of steam!

March 26 Phoebe and Bruce canning “maple magic” – liquid gold! (Yummmm!)

Though our season was cut short by unrelated events, we had plenty of fun and are “fired up” to do it all over again next year.

Now – about those pancakes!!