MILKING a TREE!?! | Maple SUGAR on OPEN FIRE | Home Made Evaporator, Wood Boiler, Chickens, Gardens

Our annual spring tradition in Canada continues with MAPLE SYRUP production. We collect sap and boil our first run with a MASSIVE haul of 9 POUNDS of maple SUGAR! We do it on an open fire! UPDATE: I’m now up to over 25 lbs of SUGAR!

I do a shout-out to:

Wilder Life 38:23: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMRLqXkYVsGFb655_fV_xkg

Aaron Nelson: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKtc-bA35lZVAffsOJdpFlQ

River Bend Longbows: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbir3zCp8TQ7_nzqvUyeANA

I’ll show you how to tap a tree, talk about the right conditions for sap flow, the concentration of sugar in sap, how we collect and boil the sap from start to finish! I’ll show you how maple syrup is made using a cheap homemade evaporator!

I’ll show you have to make a homemade maple syrup evaporator for cheap or FREE!

I’ll introduce my real brother and tour his modern homestead, the location of the Native American garden and show you all the firewood he collects for free, and how he stores and cuts it.

I’ll update you on the goat gut pile and what of it remains! 4:15.

We build a sap boiling pit with salvaged bricks, an old stainless steel vat from a commercial kitchen and some metal pipes. We do almost all of the boil with fire wood and an open fire!

Watch us collect sap using a hacked up suzuki turned sap trolley!

I talk about how native American people never really boiled sap until Europeans arrived.

Stick around until the end to see what Holden does with his share of the maple sugar!
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