Friends and family gathered over the weekend at the sugar camp at Glen Villa Art Garden for an old-fashioned sugaring off. What’s a sugaring off, you ask? In my world, it’s an excuse for a party! More factually, a sugaring off marks the end of winter and the beginning of spring. It’s a time…
It’s that super sweet time of the year, when sap is transformed into maple syrup. We’ve been making maple syrup at Glen Villa for many years now. My father-in-law tapped trees and the site of his old sugar camp is now an art installation in the woods. Making maple syrup takes time, particularly…
Winter this year was longer and colder than usual, and the deeper-than-normal snow lingered long past its ‘best before’ date. I worried that spring would be so short that our sugar bush would yield less sap than normal, and so less of that delicious product, maple syrup. I needn’t have worried. The late…
This is what’s happening in my neck of the woods: making maple syrup. Part of the Sugar Bush at Glen Villa We tapped trees in late February and have only now stopped boiling the sap into syrup. Steam rises as the sap boils down into syrup. It takes 40 litres of sap to make 1 litre…