Maple Syrup

I dropped my jugs off tonight down the road since I saw them firing up the trough. They said if all goes well, they hope to cook 1,500 gallons of tree water tonight..



I ordered 100 gallons of finished product, that means they will collect 5,000 gallons of tree water just for me and condense that down to 100 gallons of maple syrup.



That is a tremendous amount of work.



They have maybe 30 cords of wood stacked all around the maple syrup shed and they will burn all that wood in just a week or two.



When you consider how much work it takes to make 1 gallon of maple syrup, you then know why you don't see factories; there is no $$$$ to be made for the amount of labor used. These people do it always as a hobby and love of the art more than making a living off of it.



The local guy makes 3-5 hundred gallons yearly.



Trevor age 4 has 1 favorite drink:

a shot of maple syrup in a glass with some distilled water added. he ask for this almost daily. He is drinking the finest "concentrated" minerals available. One step better would be to drink direct from the tree.



MH