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  • How To Make Maple Syrup at a Sugar Shack: GF Video

    How To Make Maple Syrup at a Sugar Shack: GF Video

    Ever wondered how to make maple syrup? I have a number of friends who have sugar shacks and boil down sugar maple sap to make maple syrup. Last weekend I visited one of my friends and made this video about how to make maple syrup.

    You can also use simpler methods than the one shown here with the 2 stage evaporator, I plan on tapping my sugar maples next year and making maple syrup in with a simple propane burner and stainless steel steam table tray that will be my evaporator.

    Do you make your own maple syrup? How do you make it? and any tips and tricks you can offer us here? Let us know below

  • How to boil maple syrup GF Video

    How to boil maple syrup GF Video

    Despite a wonderful head cold, i spent a large part of the weekend with my friend Bill at his sugar house boiling maple sap. Making maple syrup is one of my favorite things to do in late winter, and in this video Bill shows us how to boil maple sap to make maple syrup

    { bill’s farm is also where we have some of our beehives, you can see them in the Beginning Beekeeping Videos }

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    Check out our other Maple Syrup Videos:

    Click here to watch a video I made about our other friend’s sugar shack in the next town.

    How to tap maple trees for sap Priscilla shows us how to tap sugar maple trees

    One error I see people do is to tap maple trees that are not sugar maples, there is a difference. Consult a good tree identification book, like this one called Bark: A Field Guide to Trees of the Northeast
    , which is handy when identifying trees in winter, it has lots of pictures of tree bark.

    Do you tap your trees? How do you boil your sap? I plan on doing it myself this winter, and am deciding between using tubing or buckets. What are your thoughts on buckets or tubing lines? Let us know below, thanks.