Happy Easter from our family to yours!
9 years ago
Maple sap is collected from maple trees and boiled down in the sugar shack until it becomes a thick, dark, amber color - the syrup we know and love today! |
Joshua was shocked to learn that it actually takes 40 gallons of sap to get just 1 gallon of syrup. No wonder syrup is so expensive! |
Our tour guide took us out on a hike through the sugar bush to tap a tree and set it up to collect maple sap. Claire was proud to be chosen as the responsible person in charge of the spile (tap). |
The kids are waiting for the tour to begin. They impressed our tour guide with what they already knew about maple sugaring. |
Ella stayed tucked up cozy in her stroller. It was a bumpy ride through the woods! |
Here Wyatt is standing beside some of the buckets collecting the sap. |
We made the mistake of letting the kids wear their rain boots instead of their winter boots on our trip. Poor Claire had frozen toes and hitched a ride with Ella for most of the hike. |
Wyatt talked Jason into carrying him so he didn't have to walk either. Some hike! |
Claire, all bundled up! |
The Native Americans were the first people to start collecting the maple sap from trees. They survived primarily on maple sugar during the long winter months. |
Wyatt was pretty excited to find his name here on the sidewalk beside the barn! |
We were so excited after our trip that we decided to try tapping our own maple trees. |
This was such a great day! The kids learned a ton, and what was even cooler was that we were able to duplicate what we learned in our own yard! If only we had 40 more maple trees... |
The kids are so proud of their maple sugar tree! We will probably be lucky if we get even a tablespoon of maple syrup from our tree by the time we boil it down, but it will be exciting none-the-less! |
Spring is in the air! (hopefully!) Although, we might get a snowstorm tomorrow. That's ok. It just means a longer maple sugar season, and that sweetens things up a little bit. :) |
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