Last April we visited Snyder Heritage Farms to see the Sugar Shack!
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| Maple trees with vacuum tubes attached. No more bugs in the pails! |
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| Lines (and sometimes children) run all through the maple grove |
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| Sap collection tank. This is HUGE. |
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| The vacuum pulling the sap in from the lines. |
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| Kevin and his dad's boiler (aka wood fired high efficiency evaporator). The sap is boiled down and filtered after going through reverse osmosis to reduce the water content by about a third. |
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Adding wood to the super hot fire. They use wood from their forest to cook the sap. No other fuel is used in the process. This is an efficient machine!
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