SUGAR BUSH ACTIVITY

 

Last Friday night we had an overnight at the farm.

It was fun,

the kids were good

and we were able to sleep. :)

 

  

The next morning we went to a wonderful pancake breakfast

and then to the sugar woods for a tour.

 





 

We have gone many times before

to a different sugar camp where we saw and heard about

boiling down the syrup.

 



This time we were given a tour of the sugar woods

and had that part of the operation explained to us.

 



This is the young man who gave us very good explanations
of gathering the sap.  It is a family operation,

with three generations working together.

 



Maple candy on the snow

 

It takes a lot of wood to run the whole thing.

They do not use any electricity.

Everything is done the old way...

except that they do have some trees connected with plastic tubing

but that all runs by gravity.

Also they use a tractor to collect the buckets of sap.