WEATHER WHIPLASH is the colloquial term for wild swings in temperature. Take the past few days for example. Yesterday’s high was near 50 degrees F. and by this morning the thermometer read 10 degrees. Tree limbs felled by last night’s wind litter the skiff of new snow. By Sunday we’ll forget it was ever cold.… Read More
The Agony of a Buried Main Line
Chief of Operations writes: We always try to set time aside in late October/early November to do tubing maintenance before the first significant snowfall. It is so much easier to repair animal chews, uncover the lines from blowdowns, and lift them off the ground when the forest floor is bare. This year was particularly problematic… Read More
The Tapping Gambit
Chief of Operations writes: “How do you know when to start tapping?” they ask. If they only knew that I don’t know, but I do it anyway. It was so easy back in the day. The accepted wisdom was that if you were finished tapping by town meeting day (the first Tuesday in March), you… Read More
Ready or not, here it comes
Lots can – and did – happen in a week: The start of tree-tapping, a February thaw, the scrubbing of sap tanks, continued tapping, a sap run, setup of pans and equipment, and ongoing tapping. Let’s start at the very beginning, a very good place to start. February 5th, First Day of Tapping “Gear explosion,”… Read More
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