My dh and my 13 y/o Colin have been boiling down sap the last few days making maple syrup. It's maple syrup time here in the county and lots to see and do in the sugar bush. The temps have to be just right to make the sap run from the maple trees. It has to dip below freezing at nite and then above during the day and the sap will run like crazy! It takes forever to boil it down and I don't know the exact ratio but you only get a wee bit of syrup from a whole bucket of sap. We've already got a litre bottle full here though and more to come!
Here's a website you can take a peek at about the festival that is going on this weekend.
If you click on activities there are pics of the horse drawn sleigh rides you can go on through the sugar bush and pics of the pipelines they use now-a-days to collect sap.
Has anyone here ever had maple syrup taffy?? I remember when I was about 8 or so my grandmother used to boil down syrup in her sugar house and us kids always use to line up with our pieces of kindling wood in hand waiting for her to pour some of that yummy syrup on top of the snow where it would turn into taffy and we would roll it up onto our sticks of wood and eat it for hours.
It's really nice that they have festivals like that around here so my kids can take part in the same thing I did when I was young. 
And the kids love it! They think it's so cool that you can actually make this stuff yourself without buying it in a store, lol!
And the kids love it! They think it's so cool that you can actually make this stuff yourself without buying it in a store, lol!
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