{"id":138,"date":"2010-03-16T17:48:05","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T22:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madeonthefarm.com\/?p=138"},"modified":"2010-03-16T17:48:05","modified_gmt":"2010-03-16T22:48:05","slug":"maple-syrup-and-other-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madeonthefarm.com\/?p=138","title":{"rendered":"Maple Syrup and other stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you look down 2 posts you can see pictures of our Maple Syrup system.\u00a0 Folks claim it looks like we are making moonshine.\u00a0 Eh Eh.\u00a0 I boiled 3-5, 8,9 and 10.\u00a0 On the 9th one of the blocks holding up the pans broke and I lost 90 gallons of sap and was done for the day, so\u00a0I have really boiled 3 times.\u00a0 We have gotten 9 gal 1 qt so far.\u00a0 It rained Thursday through Sunday.\u00a0\u00a0I do not have covers for the buckets and the temperature stayed warm and the sap was not flowing so I did not hang the buckets.\u00a0 I rehung on Monday morning.\u00a0\u00a0I went back today and only\u00a0had about 15 gallons of sap.\u00a0 The sap is\u00a0not flowing and \u00a0has a greenish cast to it so the syrup from it will be dark and have a strong taste.\u00a0 If I do not do better tomorrow we will be done for the year.\u00a0\u00a0 It was a great day to be\u00a0back in the woods.\u00a0 The wild flowers are starting to peak through and I saw a small (14 inch or so) Garter Snake.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0I spent most of today trimming fruit trees.\u00a0 I like to keep the trees trimmed so you can pick the fruit without a ladder.\"\"<\/a>\u00a0 Here you see some of \u00a0the trees with all the trimmed branches underneath them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you look down 2 posts you can see pictures of our Maple Syrup system.\u00a0 Folks claim it looks like we are making moonshine.\u00a0 Eh Eh.\u00a0 I boiled 3-5, 8,9 and 10.\u00a0 On the 9th one of the blocks holding up the pans broke and I lost 90 gallons of sap and was done for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_regular_price":[],"currency_symbol":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_slider_layout_featured_media_urls":{"thumbnail":"","post_slider_layout_landscape_large":"","post_slider_layout_portrait_large":"","post_slider_layout_square_large":"","post_slider_layout_landscape":"","post_slider_layout_portrait":"","post_slider_layout_square":"","full":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madeonthefarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madeonthefarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madeonthefarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madeonthefarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madeonthefarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/madeonthefarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140,"href":"https:\/\/madeonthefarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions\/140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madeonthefarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madeonthefarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madeonthefarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}