Sugaring: A Repost

Guest Post by Hardscrabble Farmer

ORDER YOUR SYRUP NOW!!! OPERATORS ARE WAITING – HARDSCRABBLE

Please contact me either by phone or email @ (603) 938-2043 or [email protected] and we’ll box up your order as soon as the last pint is boiled.

Well, it’s that time of year again. We hung the last bucket just before dark last night, the temperature dropping with the light. My knees were aching and my fingers split from the cold, but the trees were tapped and when the Sun comes up in the morning and the air begins to warm the sap will flow.

Last year I posted a piece about making maple syrup on The Burning Platform, and near the end of the essay, I made mention that I would likely have enough to sell if anyone was interested in trying some authentic, wood-fired, old-school maple syrup that we had made on our farm. The response was overwhelming.

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