A Trip to. the Everends Maple Syrup farm.

     Excursion day with some of the Temple Missionary group.      This is only 6 of the Missionary           couples we serve with at the Temple.  Greatest group you will ever find.  Wonderful couples to serve in the Temple with.

  

This is a Tap plug that they put into the tree to extract the syrup out as the sap flows up from the roots.

  

Then the syrup flows into these buckets that collect the sap.  The temperature at night determines the flow of the sap.  The number of buckets used on each tree is determined by the size of the trunk.  If you can put your arms around the trunk, you use 1 bucket. half way is two buckets, 1/3rd of the way is 3 buckets, etc.  Pretty interesting process and business.

This is where they boil down the syrup in this giant tub, fueled by a wood fire.  Some producers use a gas or oil fired furnaces, but this family does wood because it is free and they are set up for that, and it works for them just fine.  This is a family business and they all work together.  It takes 40 gallons of sap to make 1 gallon of syrup.  They usually get a thousand gallons of syrup per year, but this is a bad year for syrup makers because of the unusually warm weather they are having.  We got to try some of their syrup product and I was pleasantly surprised at all the different things they make.  It is delicious.  One of my favorites is the dark syrup, and the maple syrup spread you can put on crackers.  It is yummy.  Hope you enjoyed our tour of the Eversons Maple Farm.

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