Last of the sap
It’s been many late nights but I finally finished evaporating this year’s Maple sap. We collected 65 gallons this year and it took on average one hour to evaporate five…
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Deeper Magic from Before the Dawn of Time
“But what does it all mean?” asked Susan when they were somewhat calmer. “It means,” said Aslan, “that though the Witch knew the Deep Magic, there is a magic deeper…
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A trip to the Apple Store
No, not that Apple Store. Although ours did have an Apple genius and we bought a McIntosh. Received a call this morning from Leif at the local tree nursery who is…
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Burn pile before-and-after
We lit our first burn pile yesterday. We’ve been waiting for the right weather conditions: not too windy, not too wet, not too cold (because we’d be outside a lot…
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Tulip Sighting
Pulled the straw cover off our raised beds this week. It was exciting to see the first tulip stems peeking through. Last fall we packed all four raised beds full…
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How to Build an Evaporator (from stuff laying around)
Through a good amount of trial and error last year I figured out how to construct an evaporator to boil down our maple sap on the cheap. Then I forgot…
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