Tapped! Mapling with the Guys from WorcShop
Channel: Mailer's Landing
Date: 2022-02-19

There are whole days I feel like the luckiest girl in the world - I work at The WorcShop, the largest makerspace in New England, and my coworkers are The Best. Big big love to Scotty & Tim who wanted to see what kind of nonsense tapping maples involved ::HUGS!:: #meaningfulworc

Act I - Up, Down, North, South, Whatever
Act II - This One’s Mine! (Wherein Zuzu does his best to impress Scotty.) 
Act III - Lib has an inspired idea!

Growing, building and cooking in New England, zone 6b

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Notes:
- Your sap will not just up and spoil at 50° degrees, F - it will spoil faster, tho’, so keep an eye on yer buckets. (It’ll smell bad and/or turn yellow if it does go bad - you’ll definitely know if it spoiled.)  You absolutely can refrigerate or freeze it to keep it longer, but I will not recommend using ziploc bags for this (messy!)
- I do not love plastic in my garden, but that said, we’re using plastic, “tree saver,” type spiles this year, that are purported to do less damage, and to allow your tree to heal faster once the season’s over. The move to 5-gal foodsafe plastic buckets is a remark on not wanting to have to drain little pails twice a day*, 
- We’re going to boil every weekend, but we won’t be finishing it until all our sap’s been collected. We’ll be boiling it down (outside) to a light amber liquid, and storing that in the fridge until we’re ready to cook it all down together on the stovetop in a couple weeks.
*I’m working now, so it’s not as feasible as it was last year ~.o