Making syrup is fun. It is time consuming but spending time with my dad I find it brings us closer. We tapped around 50 or 60 trees last year, our first year. We made over 10 gallons of syrup and it was delicious. We even made maple sugar. To collect the sap we drilled 3/8 inch holes about 1 inch into the tree and put the taps I have pictured. We didn't buy commercial taps just used some harder plastic with a hose clamp. It might not be the best but it worked. To filter the sap we used a mesh bag or an old pillow case that was sterilized. Again it worked for our purposes. The holes all grew shut from last year when we looked yesterday. We tapped 13 trees yesterday and already my dad collected 10 gallons of sap from them. We haven't bought a thing to make syrup, using only what we had laying around. Having the plastic tubing is a big help. This year we put bigger buckets on the ground. Last year we had one gallon buckets hanging from the hose clamp on the plastic tube.
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Today's Featured Article - Farming Never Left My Blood - by Stan Gordon. I was born in 1947 youngest of ten of a working farm. Our farm was located in Saskatchewan near Saskatoon. We had a mixed farm consisting of grain and dairy all done with old machinery and by hand. My dad had a tractor, a Farmall A which was used mostly to run the thrashing machine, a seed drill and for plowing. I remember locals used to help each other and threshing was done from daylight to after dark, one farm to another until all farms were done.
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