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Pictures From Around the Sugar Bush |
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Here's a few pictures of our sugar bush. Left-click on the photo to enlarge. We'll add more photos every once in a while so check back soon! This page may take a few minutes to load, depending on your Internet connection. |
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Here we're gathering from the new Zero tank. Having the cottages nearby made it real easy to get power for the vacuum pump! |
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This is the mainline coming into our new Zero tank. Adding vacuum to this system has more than doubled the yield from this bush. |
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Here we are gathering from our main system on March 16/02. These 800 gallon and 600 gallon tanks need to be gathered from often when the sap runs well. |
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This is typical for our sugar bush - the trees appear to grow out of the rocks! The rock's so close to the surface that we're generally done producing before most in a dry spring. |
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There are never too many helpers around the sugar bush. Here, our daughter-in-law Estelle and her parents Jack and Lily help out by labelling the freshly-bottled syrup. |
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Our son Marty gathering the sap at our main pumping station. This station has an 800 gallon (shown here) and a 600 gallon Zero milk tank which have been converted for collecting sap. We also have two other Zero tanks and several stocker tanks at other locations to collect the sap. |
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The ice storm of January 1998 nearly destroyed our entire bush. We were assessed at 55% crown loss. This picture is typical of the devastation. |
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Here's one of George's favourite pictures - making maple syrup with the newest Ennis - Jessica (daughter of Marty and Estelle). |
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