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Evaporator End of the Year Cleaning

The final scrubbing of the 2022 sugaring season

The Chicks and the Basement

A busy basement indeed this fall! Thirty Cherry Egger chicks have arrived and we have a bunch of things planted.

In August, we built a pumphouse to gather the sap. It was designed to look like a sugar house and holds two totes for collecting the sap. We ran new tubing from part of the bush that had never been tapped before and updated/replaced some old tubing to get everything to run directly into theContinue reading “The New Pump House”

The New Evaporator

Looking good in the sugarhouse

Building the New Sugarhouse

We out-grew the old sugarhouse and decided it was time to mill the wood to build a new one. It needed to be big enough for a heated room to accommodate our new RO and have more access around the Small Brothers Maple Sugar Evaporator 2X6 (Lightning). The evaporator is wood-fired with a raised flue.Continue reading “Building the New Sugarhouse”