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Hi everyone! My name is Brian. For those who don't know me very well, I am the type of person that when I have an idea, I like to take it to extremes. So after very little debate, I decided to try my hand at raising a few Pheasants in my yard. Mainly for conservation reasons, but also because I thought it would be fun. So with that simple idea, I ran with it a little, and figured that if I'm already going to be rasing pheasants, then whats the difference if I raise some chickens and plant a garden. This blog is going to be a continuing documentation of my back yard farming adventure! Hope you like it, and if anyone has any questions please feel free to ask!

Saturday, April 2, 2011

Maple Syrup Operation

Apparently, It takes 44 gallons of sugar maple sap to make 1 gallon of pure maple syrup. This boils down (haha get it) to about 2 baby food jars of syrup or maple candy per week / 10 days.


2 of my 9 taps

Starting off the boiling process outside


Getting ready to strain the suspended sugars out of the syrup


The sugar content needs to be 67-68% in order to create syrup. This equates to 7.2 degress hotter boiling point that unstrained sap.



 Notice the amber color when the sugar content start to out weigh the water content
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