Backyard Sugar Shack

02/15/2026

We put in most of our maple taps today. I'll get everything else set up Wednesday and Thursday. Hopefully, we'll be boiling by Saturday or Sunday.

03/14/2025

Is St. Patrick's Day too early to take down Christmas lights and bring in Christmas decorations like Santa Clauses, reindeer, etc? I'm asking for folks in my neighborhood.

03/11/2025

03/06/2025

8:00 a.m. on 3/6/2025

02/22/2025

2 weeks ago we set up our tubing and set out our collection tanks. After 2 weeks of subnormal temperature, we will be putting up the pavilion today and assembling the evaporator. It looks like this next week will be a good run. By this time last year, I had made almost half of our years syrup.

02/08/2025

I know it is cold and no sap is currently running, but we are still going out today to install our tap lines. I have to do it when I can get help, and today is it.
It'll warm up soon and we will be ready.

02/10/2024

Tonight is the first boil of the season. Today I collected 200 gallons of sap. It is also the first year that I am using a reverse osmosis system. The sap I collected measured at 2.5% sugar. The RO unit is concentrating it down to 4%. I could bring it to 5% but I'm going to start here and see how it goes.

02/08/2024

Ready to go. Just add sap