2025 Season Update #1

We are anxiously awaiting the first drips of sap to kick-off the 2025 maple season! We have been busy the last few weeks:

• The winds to end 2024 and start 2025 left us with plenty of trees, limbs and smaller branches to clear off of our lines. There was no significant damage, but plenty of work to do!

• We purchased a monitoring system to help us remotely keep track of our sap flow and production. High vacuum is applied to all of our lines in the woods, trying to achieve 25+ inches of mercury vacuum in the lines. This aids in production by almost doubling sap yield over a gravity system. It also allows us to prolong the tap hole, which like a cut on your skin, wants to start healing once drilled. The monitoring system will tell us precisely which line has a leak so that we can deploy someone to go fix it quickly! For each 1” of vacuum over 20” sap yield increases another 5%. Squirrels love the sap almost as much as we do!

• We started to drill our woods. With 3500 taps this will take almost a week to complete. Although we don’t expect any sap runs in the next 7-10 days, we can take our time tapping and ensure a tight system is ready to go once the late winter days warm over the freezing point during the days.