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Sap Collecting Job Description
Sap collecting is typically performed 10-14 days within the 4-6 week season
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Pure Maple Syrup Season 2025: Fall Preparations
Some things are best done early, and thoroughly cleaning the Pure Maple Syrup Evaporator is one of those things.
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Food Safety: An Example From Primal Woods
Our Pure Maple Syrup is packaged in glass, this is why, and this is what it means to our customers.
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How Primal Woods Pure Maple Syrup Is Made
The "how" of our traditional approach to making Pure Maple Syrup in a 5 minute video
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Why Primal Woods Pure Maple Syrup
The "why" of our traditional approach to making Pure Maple Syrup in a 3 minute video
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Maple Syrup Process Flow Diagram
A process flow diagram is key to planning and continuous improvement
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Maple Syrup Business Analysis 2020
Reflection is key to improvement planning
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Primal Woods: Sugar House Roof DIY
Two steam stacks, and one furnace exhaust stack; making and preparing the roof penetrations for the stacks
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Planning for 2018 Maple Syrup Expansion
Pure Maple Syrup process expansion; from hobby to business
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Revisiting the End of Maple Sugaring Season - Based on Growing Degree Days
Growing Degree Days are used to predict whether or not fruit trees will actually bear fruit; I'm applying this measure to Sugar Maples and predicting…
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Estimating the End of Maple Sugaring Season - Based on Growing Degree Days
Applying a tool usually used for fruit trees, Growing Degree Days, to estimate the end of Sugar Maple sap flow.
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Assembling the Leader Evaporator Half Pint - Parts 3 and 4 of 4
Moving of the bricked arch to the sugar house, leveling the arch/evaporator, installing the stack, and the first (test) boil using water and baking soda
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