Maine Maple Syrup | Backyard Sap Boiling Process

Making pure Maine maple syrup is one of my favorite things to do. Maple syruping season comes after the long winter finally begins to wind down, the days get warmer and longer, and some of the migratory birds (Red-Winged Blackbird and American Robin for example) start to arrive once again in our neck of the woods. Boiling maple syrup has always signaled the arrival of spring for us here in Western Maine.

In this video I do a bit of sap collection on Saturday, and then on Sunday we boil down the sap that we collected over the past few days. We use our homemade evaporator and a large pan which holds about 15 gallons of sap at a time to boil down the 35 or so gallons of sap we had for this boil. Oh, and i also take some time to check in on our chickens, goats, and horse.

Kick back, relax, and enjoy the sights and sounds (and imagine the sweet taste) of what spring is really like here in Maine! We are enjoying the fact that spring seems to have arrived almost a month early this year, something we haven't seen in a years.

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