We collected sap this afternoon from our small acreage. Jesse and his best friend, Jose, bundled up, and completed the process quickly. They dumped the sap from the blue collection bags into their blue
buckets, and carried them back to Pa's (Grandpa) pickup truck.
Jesse held the funnel with an automotive cone filter inside, and Jose poured his bucket of sap through the filter into the waiting jug. Then they reversed jobs.
Considering our less than ideal weather conditions, we are pleased with nearly 15 gallons of sap from our 20 collection bags. If we collect at least that much more in the next few days, we should realize about a gallon of delicious maple syrup. Forty gallons of sap usually produce one gallon of syrup.
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