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Sat SYRUP Maple Boil Down in Somerville https://www.thegrowingcenter.org/maplesyrupproject
#SomervilleMA #MapleSyrup #maple #syrup #Sugaring

Nighttime sugaring for moths was so popular in the late 1800s that people tacked name cards onto the trees they'd painted to warn off other collectors. Per a book from the time (Furneaux 1894), "each entomologist has a moral right to a run he has baited, and that it is considered ungentlemanly, if not unjust, to take insects from sugar laid by another." #moth #moths #sugaring #insects #lepidoptera #entomology

So apparently the addition of asafoetida gets more moths to show up at sugaring mixes such as beer, molasses, and rum. #moth #moths #mothing #beetles #nocturnal #lepidoptera #insects #sugaring #entomology #sulphur #noctuidae

Warmer weather could mean more mud and possible flooding, but with overnight temps being lower it also means it is sugaring season. Saw lots of buckets hanging from the trees along the roads today. #vermont #mapleSyrup #sugaring

Entry 2
(I swear this isn’t an ad for Polar seltzer)

It’s been 1 full week since we tapped our Sugar Maple. It started slow but as the temps warmed up, the sap began to flow. Nights in the 20s combined with days in the 40s is ideal.

The tree produced 8 liters. We keep the sap in the refrigerator until the weather is cold enough to run the woodstove, then start boiling it down on top of the stove! (Pictures next week.)

#MapleSugaringMonday #MapleSugar #nature #Sugaring

Tapped our Sugar Maple this weekend. I remember when, due to much colder temps, I wouldn’t until late February. But now the sap is usually running by late January, if not earlier. Last year we collected 35 liters of sap which, after boiling down, produced a quart of syrup.

Looking at the upcoming forecast it should be a good week for sap flow.

#MapleSugar #SugarMaple #Sugaring #ClimateChange #MapleSugaringMonday

Stove base of the maple syrup evaporator my grandfather gave me ~36 years ago. Not pictured are the galvanized steel boiling pan and warming tank that sit on top. I need to clean those next.

I recovered it from storage back in NH, and have gradually restored it (lots of sanding and Rustoleum). Not sure what I'll do with sugaring equipment here in TN, but it holds a lot of sentiment, and I didn't want to abandon it.

Konica FS-1, 50mm f/1.4, Ilford FP4. #FP4Party #BelieveInFiIm #Sugaring

Drill scar in one of my maple trees from a sugaring season years earlier (August 2005). #TreeTuesday #NewHampshire #Sugaring #KonicaMinoltaDimageA200

Set the first tap of the season yesterday, looking forward to a new batch of Black Walnut syrup.

The thing I love about sugaring is that when the sap starts running it’s such a tangible sign that spring is coming—there’s still snow on the ground, and more coming later this week, but the sap is flowing because the trees know that spring is coming, even when it’s hard for us to see.

#BlackWalnutSyrup #Sugaring #SignsOfSpring

@dogtrax I still do buckets. I'm therefore much more dependent on the weather and physics -- as the tree warms, the cooler moisture gravitates up from the roots, picks up sugar and the pressure forces the liquid out the taps. Nowadays, those with lines use vacuum pumps just suck out the sap. This is how it looked 100 years ago. #sugaring

@wion that is amazing. Loved the video. Have you ever tasted one?

I will be posting some pictures and writing when I get started with the sugaring. It still is very cold here with no prospect of warming in the next 10 days -- a late, and probably short, season. Best weather: 20 degrees F at night 40 degrees F in the day. Simple physics: When the tree warms, moisture gravitates up from the roots and out the taps into the buckets. #sugaring

@wion that is amazing. Loved the video. Have you ever tasted one?

I will be posting some pictures and writing when I get started with the sugaring. It still is very cold here with no prospect of warming in the next 10 days -- a late, and probably short, season. Best weather: 20 degrees F at night 40 degrees F in the day. Simple physics: When the tree warms, moisture gravitates up from the roots and out the taps into the buckets. #sugaring

@wion I have a small, flat pan called an evaporator that has three channels with the new sap slowly streaming in on the left side from the holding tanks. The sap, as it boils moves, by physics, cooler to hotter so the left side boils at 213-degrees (we are 1500 ft above sea level) and on the far right, when it reaches 218, I pull it out and then finish it off on the stove. The higher boiling temperature is a result of there being more sugar concentration. #sugaring

#smallstories I have begun to ready myself to slow down time: Sugaring -- what we call making maple syrup. It is a glacial occupation because you can't make a boiling liquid boil faster. And since it takes from 32-40 gallons of sap (depending on its sugar content) to make a gallon of syrup, you boil for a long, long time. But you see things. Like owls. And I'm glad my pal, a Bard, (pictured below) is back to join our ritual once again.

I will write more as the season gets underway. #sugaring

#smallstories I have begun to ready myself to slow down time: Sugaring -- what we call making maple syrup. It is a glacial occupation because you can't make a boiling liquid boil faster. And since it takes from 32-40 gallons of sap (depending on its sugar content) to make a gallon of syrup, you boil for a long, long time. But you see things. Like owls. And I'm glad my pal, a Bard, (pictured below) is back to join our ritual once again.

I will write more as the season gets underway. #sugaring