Foliage of Birch Trees in a Birch Sap Syrup Forest

2014 Harvest

A bit of time has gone by … while our 2013 harvest was late (starting May 3rd) with a long, cold spring, our 2014 harvest started right smack on the average start date of April 21st.  It ended abruptly on May 7th, a short 16 days later. This year’s harvest ended about the time our…

Birch Forest where Birch Sap Syrup is collected

2013 Harvest

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. It’s a challenge – a combination of physics, design, art, intuition … they would probably come up with a couple of other descriptions! The rest of the crew arrives this week,…

Collecting Birch Sap Syrup from Trees

2012 Harvest

4/21/12 Wow, how time flies … another harvest underway, our 23rd! It’s a wild one – I call it “transition” year … and for anyone who has ever given birth, you know what I mean by transition! We installed 2000 taps on a tubing and vacuum system to see how that works for us, AND…