So the sow decided to farrow on Sunday, and as luck would have it she had no complications. The first two delivered after lunch followed by another nine in the late afternoon-early evening. The other four came sometime between midnight and six A.M. and although I am not sure which ones qualify as hardy and [...]
It’s that time of year again when we all dutifully comply with our government and set our clocks forward in order to serve some sort of purpose. I’ve heard it’s because farm kids had to wait in the dark for school buses and who could possibly be against children, but that doesn’t make any sense [...]
Near the end of the day, out behind the barn, I paused in the middle of collecting sap and set the yoke and buckets down in the snow for a moment and just soaked in the moment. The sky was that vibrant azure color that seemed to move behind the trees and as I looked [...]
It’s been four solid days of evaporating maple sap into it’s stellar end product. The next time I hear anyone question the price of hand-crafted maple syrup I’ll let them come up and give me a hand for a couple of hours. First there is the collection of the sap and the transportation of the [...]
We are three days into tapping, with just over a thousand installed so far with about two hundred yet to go. It was cloudy today and cool. The sap didn’t run like it did yesterday, but it’s coming and you can tell. The local weather is calling for sunny with temperatures in the high 40′s [...]
