First Maple Syrup Of 2010
Wednesday, March 3, 2010 at 01:55PM Howell Farm's evaporator in full steam.Sugar Maple sap is flowing freely in the milder temperatures of these past weeks. In the last couple of days Howell's farmers have gathered an average of 40 gallons of sap in a day-- enough to make 1 gallon of syrup! In Howell Farm's evaporator a steady blazing fire for the cooking of sap is being maintained from the early hours of the morning to the day's end.
On Tuesday, March 2, Danielle Houghton finished and bottled our first batch of maple syrup. 5 gallons of syrup was made from 120 gallons of sap, collected over three weeks time.
This first run syrup is now for sale in our gift shop.Boiling sap travels the channels in the evaporator, becoming syrup once it reaches the end of the track.






