Sneak Peek! Our Syrup Season from Start to Finish in 264 seconds.
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This winter on Misty Acres we were hard at work building our maple syrup cooker, tapping maple trees, collecting sap, cooking it down in our new DIY evaporator, and finally, canning up that liquid gold. It was a blast for the entire family! We started with about 300 gallons of sap and ended up having just short of 7 gallons of fresh maple syrup. The experience truly is the best part!
In less than 4 1/2 minutes you can see how we built our cooker, tapped trees, collected sap, and cooked it down. In a nutshell, this video shows the process from start to finish. This video also shows how we converted a fuel oil tank into a DIY maple sap evaporator.
Here is a preview of what we did during this years maple syrup season. Stay tuned we are working on several instructional videos for you, for this coming year. Watch how we do it, here on Misty Acres.
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Thanks for watching,
Daniel & Lindsay Madsen
6 thoughts on “Sneak Peek! Our Syrup Season from Start to Finish in 264 seconds.”
What a fun way to document the process!
Thank you, Karen! We have so much fun with tapping and boiling down the sugar that we just had to share.
I had no idea how syrup was made. And I love how involved your children are, too! Thanks so much for sharing this!
That’s so kind of you Meredith! I think that syrup making is a mystery to a lot of people but it is really fun and rewarding if you can do it yourself. We look forward to it every Spring.
Wow! This is really interesting — seems like you guys have your hands full of syrup and syrup-related tasks this time of year!
Thanks, Charissa! I am happy that you found it interesting. Maple syrup season is in the Spring which is when all the videos and pictures were taken. Fall is the easy time of year. All we have to do is mark our maple trees for the winter/spring. Making maple syrup has become one of our favorite things to do in the year.