Maple Makin

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So Tom travels around the festival circuit and has a little food stand called the "sugar shack". Why? Cause he taps trees in Vermont, makes syrup from the sap, comes home and makes candy from the syrup, and then sells the delicious maple candy at the sugar shack.

So he taught us to make candy and we have helped him out a few times.

We also wanted to learn to tap trees and so Tom took us out one morning and after locating the maple's we put up tap buckets. We've gotten some sap from them and made about half a pint of syrup in the last two days. Not a ton, but pancakes are going to be delicious in the near future.

And i get to eat all the sugar scraps from the candy that i could possibly want.

Life is tasty!




in other news... Travis and i might be cooking at a camp here in North Carolina for the summer. www.buffalocove.com

I am getting excited about learning the edible foods surrounding me in this new area - these mountains. All the uses and folklore. We are falling for wild onions and chickweed.



Things loved:
"Any intelligent fool can invent further complications,
but it takes a genius to retain, or recapture, simplicity.
-E.F. SCHUMACHER

Things Made:
Lots and lots of bannana bread. good ol' free bananas. Gotta use um


Dreaming of:
Manzanitas in Snow Canyon, UT

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Photos

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Syrup almost at candy making temp.

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Tom filling the molds

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love this photo of Tom

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Tom tells us you have to get the perfect timing of sugar in and out of this machine

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candies drying

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tapping my first tree

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Travis tapping his first tree

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Aila cleaning the woodchips out of the hole

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tap tap tappin

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the farm family

Comments

[gia]

Really neat!
Wow, what a cool expierence. My daughter really thought it was cool to see the pics of tapping the trees. I envy you for getting to eat the scraps! ...Thanx for sharing and happy travels!

[abbied]

no problem - glad you enjoyed the experience via the photos