Evaporator and Reverse Osmosis
Part of this weekends task was to get a little further along with our evaporator and reverse osmosis projects. We got the exhaust pipe installed on the evaporator. Next step…
Category: Maple Syrup
Maple Syrup Evaporate getting built
We are (hopefully) 4 weeks before the sap starts running. We are working on making our up cycling miscellaneous materials from around our place. The base of the evaporator will…
Working on our Maple Syrup Evaporator
One of our fall/winter projects is to upcycle an old filing cabinet into a Maple Syrup Evaporator. The drawers were taken out. We’ve done a couple burns to start to…
Final Boil
Last boil was on April 4th. We got another 1.5 liters for a grand total of 6.25 liters this year. Next year we plan to expand and hopefully at least…
2nd Boil results
From our second boil we got another 2 liters of Maple Syrup. Looks like there will be two maybe three boils left.
Start of our homemade reverse osmosis (RO) system
An RO system is exactly like a water filtering system. You know the ones that that filter out the impurities and leave you with wonderfully pure drinking water? Except sugarmakers…
Best Sap Day Yet
Not sure why but Sunday was the best day yet for sap … we have been averaging about 4 gallons a day. Today we collected between 7.5 and 8 gallons!…
2nd Boil
Second boil is underway we are hopping that we get the same amount of syrup as last time.
First Syrup
Our first boil generated 2.75 l of Syrup! It is amazing how different the flavour is compared to the store bought varieties of maple syrup.
First Boil of the Year
This year I created a solar filtering system using a pump to move the syrup. The first boil is for 10 gallons of sap. After a number of hours we…