Syrup buckets hanging in the woods

Boiling Sap to make syrup. It generally takes 50 gallons of sap to make a gallon of maple syrup

Syrup season actually begins in the fall when it’s time to cut firewood for the evaporator

Sap flowing from the sugar maple tree

Once the syrup is ready after boiling it is transferred into holding pans awaiting fine tuning the finish and then filtering and finally bottling