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The first batch of syrup has come off the evaporator. Very nice this year. A bit darker than last year, with excellent taste.

The bees are waking up. It hit 55F today and I checked my 5 hives. 4 of them made it through the winter. Not bad ! An 80% survival rate is considered very good here in New England.

And the maple sap was running today. We collected another 70+ gallons. There are 165 gallons in the sap tank, and we’re expecting a tsunami of sap over the next 4 days. I fired up the evaporator today for a quick check. All is well, and we should be making syrup on Sunday.

Here’s a link to the maple sap logs

https://www.saptapapps.com/map/9823097c-6f6c-487d-8b0c-7631493f62d4

There is in some parts of New England a kind of tree…whose juice that weeps out of its incision, if it be permitted slowly to exhale away the excess moisture, doth congeal into a sweet and saccharine substance. 

Robert Boyle
Philosophical Works (1663)

Started planting pepper seeds today !

Started to collect sap – 30 gallons so far

Just located another 19 trees to tap. Good sap flow predicted later in the week.

Not much maple sap yet. The daytime temperatures have been around freezing. We need another 5 degrees during the day to get good sap flow

The BitzNPeace Farm website is live! Stop by from time to time to see what’s new

The maple sap is starting to flow. Next week looks good for a major sap flow. We might have the evaporator going next weekend