buy prednisolone for cats uk I’ve been terribly busy lately – it’s tapping season, the busiest time of year on a maple farm – and I haven’t had time to write down the long thoughts I’ve been having, but one of the themes in my mind has been an examination of the idea of self-sufficiency or self-reliance. I’ve long thought […]
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Self-Sufficiency.
16-Jan-14Cold.
07-Jan-14Porterville When I woke up this morning it was 33 – inside my house. I got up (reluctantly) and went off to work. We were tapping the trees this morning. But by noon it still hadn’t gotten above zero, and the boss had mercy on us and sent us home at lunchtime. It wasn’t so bad […]
Sugaring.
07-Jan-14This winter I’m working for Catskill Mountain Sugar House, a maple syrup farm in Grahamsville, the next town over from Claryville. I get a lot of questions about what it’s like working there, and there’s absolutely no way to do the place justice in this blog format, but I can give some sense of what […]
First Tree Taps.
10-Feb-13I tapped three maples yesterday. I was planning on doing only one – so if I did something wrong which would become clear only with some hindsight I could correct my course early on – but it was so easy to do (taking about twenty seconds), that I did two more. You drill a hole […]
Tapping, Tapping, Tapping.
06-Feb-13Maple sap-tapping supplies arrived yesterday. The weather isn’t quite warm enough, I don’t think, to drive the taps in – it hasn’t gotten above freezing during the day yet – but the time is near. This gives me time to look around for my drill bits, which wandered off somewhere during the winter. I was […]
Cold, Cold Wind.
01-Feb-13Cutting wood outside today I found it colder than any previous day in the whole winter – even though it was 19 degrees, a good 15 degrees warmer than the coldest days we’ve had so far. The difference was the wind – a bitter, terrible wind. Not even chopping wood could warm me in that […]