I read this last night. I know sugaring is good for you as an activity (except the ticks and hurting your body if you do too much.) I know it tastes good. It would be great to find out that eating it was beneficial. Medicinal.The season is over for me and the kids. We leave today, before the clean-up and even before the last boil.
It has been a warm year. We have made lovely syrup. We have made much less of it then we have in the past for the same number of taps. Looking at the weather patterns from last year to this we see an average mean temperature of about 10 degrees between March 1st and March 28th. It just didn't get cold enough and then it got too warm. Did I say, we made some great syrup? We just didn't make a lot of it. It was a great year to be a little further north. It was a better year for folks on vacuum systems. It was also a great year to get everything bottled up early. We put away some for Christmas barn sales, but most everything else is going into pints. Here is a short stop motion video from the sugarhouse in early March.
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