Here's the thing

…about sap. It’s really not an issue of collecting enough sap to make syrup. The trees are pumping out more sap than I can process. The issue is boiling the sap. It takes a ton of time and a ton of energy. When it’s cold out I’m happy to boil the sap on the wood stove in the barn. After all, I’m in there anyway, the fire is going.

But as the season turns, running the wood stove hot enough to boil sap in the barn is too warm for me. SO I boil on the turkey fryer and that task consumes a bunch of propane. And time. Lots and lots of time.

On Sunday I was in full pioneer mode. Got up early to split wood, boiled sap at the same time.