Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Season Update

Farm life continues to be busy. The guys are happy to announce that the woods are officially ready to tap. The lines have been prepared, replaced and updated. All of the pumps are serviced and ready to go. The weather looks great so far this season. We plan on tapping our trees in two weeks. We are very excited to see if our improvements this year impact our syrup production. Hopefully we make a lot of syrup this year!! 

I picked up the granulated maple sugar and maple candy from our amish friends in campbellsville on Saturday. All of the candy and sugar is made using local maple syrup from Orange County, Indiana. 

The sugar comes packaged in 5 pound bags. Jenny and I repackaged 90 pounds of granulated sugar into half pound bags, small and large sugar shakers, and 5 gallon buckets of cotton candy mix ( 1 part pure granulated maple sugar to 2 parts pure granulated cane sugar). 
Half pound bags of granulated maple sugar. Packaged, bagged, labled and ready to go!!

We packaged the maple candy pieces into three piece snack bags and half pound bags. I think we did 60 pounds so far. After two days of bagging candy and sugar, everything starts to run together. 

Robert and I are planning on going to Michigan on Sunday to pick up our annual supply order and the new reverse osmosis machine. The trip has been rescheduled several times to a delay in our jug order. Hopefully it works out this time!! 


Jenny and Nic were off work today and spent the day at the farm. Jenny delivered the Bloomingfoods order. 

I worked a half day and spent a couple of hours making phone calls today. Our t-shirts have been ordered from Sampan, the maple tea has been ordered from Metropolitan Tea Company, the maple coated nuts have been ordered from Zachary Confections, and several new vendors have been scheduled. I think we will have 10-15 new vendors this year. We will be putting together our vendor list and musician schedule within the next two weeks. Never a dull moment or a spare minute!! 


 

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