Steam rises from a metal pan set up under a car port with solar panels in a driveway.
Three jars with different colored liquids sit on a windowsill.
Today brought rain for boiling the last 1.5 gallons from last week’s collection! Here are the results from the past 3 days! #NaturallyBeautiful #Spring #MarchIsMapleMonth #MapleSugaring #VT
A cook stove with a metal pan with clear liquid on a table in a drive way with a snowy garden in the background.
What a difference a day makes! Back boiling in the sunshine today! #Spring #MarchIsMapleMonth #MapleSugaring #VT
A human hand holds a glass jar containing a light yellow thick liquid above a metal pan on a stove top on a table in a snowy backyard.
I think my coworkers were getting nervous that I was taking over the staff refrigerator with #MapleSap! I decided to boil at home due to the volume! 2 gallons done today and 4 more to go tomorrow! #Fancy #MarchIsMapleMonth #Trees #MapleSugaring #VT #FoodOnFriday
A close up photograph of an icicle, formed on a blue tap, dripping into a blue bucket.
And in today’s #Sap news…it was a chilly day so we only got about a gallon in our bucket. I decided to leave it for my learners to collect on Monday. Bonus from today…I got to see a sapsicle on the tap! #MarchIsMapleMonth #MapleSugaring #VT
A clear plastic container showing clear liquid . There are black lines and dates to mark collection levels.
The clear liquid is in a silver metal pot on a burner.
The brown liquid in a silver metal pot has foam on top in the shape of a heart.
A human hand holds up a clear glass jar to show the color of the liquid that was taken from the metal pot.
#WaterWednesday in the form of #MapleSugaring #Tradition #TreeToClassroom #PBL #SapToSyrup #ShowHeart #VT
And…just like that…it’s #MapleSugaring time in #VT! #Tradition #PlaceBasedLearning #Winter #TreeLove
Nature art depicting a girl holding a bucket and walking towards a tree that has been tapped to collect sap.The girl has a hearing aid and her hair is in a bun. Art created on a stump using pine bark, pine needles, and other types of bark.
We've been very grateful for our induction burner the last few days as maple sap has to be boiled for quite a while - the ratio from sap to syrup is 40 to 1! The induction burner provides an easy way to do it, using our solar power to boot. #maplesugaring
RO not working right? Yeah, we’ve all been there. 😩 If your system is struggling, chances are there’s an air leak.
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#MapleSugaring #VermontMade
You know you live in NH during sugaring season when your working at the computer and your husband gestures he needs help lifting a sap tank. #maplesugaring @rebeccaupjohn.bsky.social
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Black and white image showing the stove base of a small evaporator used for making maple syrup. It's made from a 55 gallon barrel that's been flared at the top to hold a pan. There's a door for putting in firewood, and it stands on simple metal legs. It was made in Vermont by a local company (now defunct) called Ascutney Forge. I used it for a number of seasons, and it was rusty after years in storage. It's been freshly painted black, with an added coat of clear acrylic.
Black and white image showing a closer view of the stove base of a small evaporator used for making maple syrup.
Black and white image looking through the stove pipe towards the open door of a small evaporator used for making maple syrup.
Stove base of the maple syrup evaporator my grandfather gave me ~36 years ago.
I recovered it from storage back in NH, and have done my best to restore it (lots of sanding and Rustoleum). Not sure what I'll do with sugaring equipment in TN, but it holds a lot of sentiment.
Konica FS-1, 50mm f/1.4.
