#maplesyrup

We went to help my mom collect some maple sap the other night. It proved a little harder than expected with the two young boys. While I was busy carrying kids and sap E took over the camera and made a

Trying to be healthy I threw together a little breakfast mix of yogurt, bee pollen, maple syrup, blueberries, cinnamon, granola.

Maple syrup time is here. There is only is a short window to collect the sap, usually there is about a six week period when the sap is running. This year I tapped 16 Sugar maple trees. When tapping a tree,

Now this is the real thing Organic Maple Syrup!! When I feel the need for syrup on my pancakes this is it !!! With so many artificial syrups out there, why not use something Organic.... and natural!!!!!

The sap is running! Last year we were largely robbed of the sugar season when winter ended a month early (just kidding! Catastrophic frost in June!). I completely failed to get taps in the trees on time

Today I had a little time before work to get some of my Maple Trees tapped. I'll show you how easy it is to do, and go over a few facts about Syrup making. Here are the tools I would recommend using to

Sap boiling in my Sugarshack! Excited to start off the season!!

It's that time of the year again! Time to start boiling down sap from trees to make Maple Syrup!! Let me know in the comments if you want me to make a series about making Maple Syrup!

Today I learned about the big maple syrup robbery: a group of thieves who broke into the Canadian maple syrup store and took $ 18 million syrup. Canada also has a strategic reservoir of maple syrup. Source:

One of the best feelings in the world...Waking up naturally. I rolled out of bed this morning feeling rejuvenated. I didn't know why but I thought maybe it was my late night pancake binge from the night

Around this time of the year, my family and I pile into the car and head to the local maple sugar-bush. That's what we did this past weekend. Why? It's Maple syrup festival time! This year has been a

I wasn't paying attention and tapped a sugar maple where two had joined together many years ago. I got about 3 gallons of sap each today from the two trees right beside it, where from this tap I haven't

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One of the first things in the year that we do on our farm is collect sap from our sugar maple bush to boil down into syrup. We make a couple of gallons for our own use and to gift out. It takes between

The Season is Starting Now Part of the philosophy over on TheModernHomestead.com is to "Grow Where You Are". So let me give you a brief history. About 12 years ago, while serving as the assistant

Happy 150th anniversary to my fellow Canadians. Toronto representing ! Follow me @cheffil