HARVEST JOURNAL

Sap harvest 2022 is over. We collected our last sap on May 7th. Harvest lasted a good 20 days but proved to be an…

As 2021 draws to a close I find that I seek sustenance from the earth and the beauty of our natural world, and from…

In Alaska the snow is finally melting, and the sap has started to run in the birches. If you are in a northern clime,…

Sap happened early this year – in fact, the earliest ever in our 30 years of tapping birches in Alaska. Yes, it’s our…

Harvest 2018 has come to an end. We collected 123,000 gallons of sap and made 1,100 gallons of syrup in 22 days. It was…

The sap is running and so are we! Sap appeared in Talkeetna area birches starting on April 9th. It will take our crew of…

Our spring tree tapping will soon be underway–we have 10,500 trees to tap. We expect the sap to start flowing any day! Our crew…

2015 was the earliest, longest, and slowest harvest on record for us. After a record warm March, we started collecting sap on April 4th.…

A bit of time has gone by … while our 2013 harvest was late (starting May 3rd) with a long, cold spring, our 2014…

3/31/13 Another season in the woods near Talkeetna is starting! Dylan, India, and Josh arrived early to help install tubing to another 1500 trees.…

4/21/12 Wow, how time flies … another harvest underway, our 23rd! It’s a wild one – I call it “transition” year … and for…

3/24/11 Happy Spring! Where does the time go? The weather is warming rapidly here in Alaska, and the freeze/thaw is well underway. I am…