First Ohio maple syrup
We picked just the right
time to tap
the sugar maple just outside our back door. Twenty-four hours
later, the two-gallon bucket was nearly full!
When tapping in
Virginia, I couldn't taste any sweetness in our maple sap, but here the
sugars are more condensed and are evident even in liquid straight from
the tree. After boiling down a gallon and a half of sap, we ended up
with half a cup of quality maple syrup. Just in time for Mark's weekend
pancakes!
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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I bet it's sure is good. I've always wanted to Make maple syrup but we have only two maples o our property so its not worth tapping. Maybe one day I will have property with more trees. I'll keep dreaming. Jenw~