Boiling down 2 gallons of maple sap to make syrup #outdoors #maplesyrup #mapletapping #selfreliance | Bushcraft Life

We made 10.5 gallons of maple syrup this year on our homestead by tapping ten trees only! We usually tap around 18 but had plans to tap 30! Life happened and we ended with just the original ten BUT we tapped early in February and it paid off!! 🎈 We started this year with 1.5 gallons leftover from last year that we will use first but with our new 10.5 gallons we have 12 to last until next season. We won’t use that so it’ll be a great buffer in case next year isn’t so hot! We did replace some cin