Maple Syrup

                                                  Trough- like container

                                                Putting sap in a bucket

                                       Sap being put into the plastic container behind the tractor

                                                          Fearless sap collectors

                                            container connected to pipe

                                       Pipe caring sap to the Sugar Shack

                                            Stirring the maple syrup

                                            Hot dog roasters

                                                             A bucket of sap

Sap coming out of the  pipe

Well here we are in the month of March. I can't believe that our time here in Philippi is coming to a close. The first weekend  of this month we went and helped make maple syrup up at the farm. First we went out to 10 trees to collect the sap out of the buckets. The buckets were frozen over so we had to brake the ice to set the sap out of the  buckets. We then put the sap in a big plastic container on the  back of the tractor and took it back to the sugar shack to boil the  syrup. To get to the  sugar shack we put a pipe in the  large plastic container and let it run down hill to the shack. There it emptied into a large metal container. Below the large metal container was a trough like container where there was  boiling water. When the metal container was full of sap we let small amounts of sap into the  boiling water. While we waited for the sap to boil down we at hot dogs and chips for lunch. We roasted our hot dogs over the fire underneath the trough like container.