In many ways this summer is an extraordinary one and I find myself trying to breathe through it, and my mask. We have somehow made it through July. While our usual steady stream of tourists slowed to barely a trickle, masked Alaskans are showing their support of small businesses and are filling our porch, enjoying…
In Alaska the snow is finally melting, and the sap has started to run in the birches. If you are in a northern clime, get out of the house and tap a few birch trees! Drink that sap! It’s the perfect spring tonic – full of electrolytes, minerals, and micro-nutrients. This is a rewarding activity…
‘Tis the season, and we will exhibit our full line of products, including custom gift baskets and gift crates, at two of our favorite Anchorage shows this holiday season. Each of these shows is an eclectic collection of Alaska only artists, crafters, authors, epicureans, inventors, and innovators. We have been doing these three shows for,…
Sap happened early this year – in fact, the earliest ever in our 30 years of tapping birches in Alaska. Yes, it’s our 30th Anniversary! It’s hard to believe it’s been that long since deciding, all those years ago on the homestead, that it was a concept worthy of investment and a way to…
Even though it’s snowing hard outside, somehow spring is in the air and we are starting to prepare for our 30th year tapping the birches. Sap harvest arrives every year along with the mud and mess of Alaska’s spring breakup. Enjoy this take on “breakup” in Alaska, and what it means to birch sap harvesters.…
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Salmonberries From Birch to Berries – Summer 2018 comes to a close It’s August and our short Alaska summer is flying by! We have had a warm and sunny summer in Talkeetna, but the August rains have settled in the past few days. The gardens are thriving, the berry season is coming on and 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 a wet, cool season with abundant snow on the ground. This makes for a very high quality sap and syrup. Our crew is out in the woods pulling 11,000 taps and…
The sap is running and so are we! Sap appeared in Talkeetna area birches starting on April 9th. It will take our crew of seven hard workers four long, strenuous days to tap 10,500 birches. We just hauled in our first 1600 gallons of beautiful, clear sap! That means it’s going to get noisy around…
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 has been out in the woods since early March preparing for the upcoming harvest. There is more daylight every day, and the nighttime temperatures are slowly creeping up. Most of the…
