You wont Believe How Much Maple Syrup We made Today

Today we collected the most sap from our Maple trees all year. It is awesome how much maple syrup we got!
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[@LumnahAcres]

The Propane Double Jet Burner That we Use amzn.to/2CstaTV

[@DJOmega80]

Lumnah Acres Do you have a link to the pot that you are using? Thanks in advance. I am enjoying these maple syrup videos.

[@bobrichards318]

You may want to consider getting rid of all aluminum pots, pans, containers. Aluminum utensils leach aluminum into whatever food is placed in it. Aluminum in the system is known to cause many health problems. They normally occur over time so one is not aware of the threat they have placed on their health.

[@cathleencaratan3373]

I’m amazed at how much sap it takes to make such a smaller amount in syrup. Now I have a better appreciation for the cost of pure maple syrup in the stores.

[@johnchase4408]

Sugar Maples 40:1 Other Maples 60:1

[@philhendrix55]

I’m 75 yrs old and I admire your development of your homestead. Your family is an inspiration to me. I was raised on a small farm in Nebraska, milking cows and bailing alfalfa. Your bacon, eggs, and goat’s milk is totally different. I am enjoying all your videos.

[@drillsgtlangdon]

Man, Im surprised that I havent seen this yet. Collecting sap and making syrup is super interesting to me. I love this stuff! Please make more :)

[@50shadesofgreen]

Good day to you Al, Gina & Olivia !! 👍👍😁😁 Thanks for sharing your thoughts, knowledge and experiences on turning your sap into maple syrup with us all today 😁😁👍👍

[@hankfacer7098]

What a journey for 6 pints. Still beautiful home made Maple Syrup.

[@jakejacobs3895]

Great job Al your maple syrup project is coming along as always we thank you for taking us along

[@KahlestEnoch]

Those bacon seeds are getting big. Awesome amount of syrup today great.

[@batpherlangkharkrang7976]

Thank you for sharing your video homestead chicken farmer garden on KZbin 👨‍👩‍👧👸👕👓🐈🐔🐓🐥🐩🐐🌱🏡🎥👍👍👍

[@wendyknoxleet]

Yes that wood burner is fabulous.

[@dianemurphy2840]

Pluto looks like a gem of a dog :) Love how you have great set ups for all your chores. Still a lot of work though. God Bless

[@CleoCastonguay47]

Good full day's work to get those six pints of syrup.... It'll sure be a treat for family and friends on pancake days throughout the year... Thanks for sharing that with us Al . :)

[@lesleyoliver5582]

That's a lot of syrup. Yum! Great job. 👍🏼🐨🐨

[@kflan3342]

In Texas we have not had the 'saps running' experience. I have found your journey fascinating and I will never ever begrudge the price I pay for my half gallon jugs of organic maple syrup. Very labor intensive! Great job.

[@jeffgannon1]

This video is awesome. Nothing better than homemade maple syrup. We get about 1 gallon of syrup from 20-22 gallons of sap. Nice job.

[@IggyDalrymple]

I visited with an old friend this morning who built his own insulated syrup evaporator so there was much less heat loss. My friend is now age 80 and sold the evaporator to his younger brother who is a major producer of cane syrup in our little community.

[@evephillips6701]

That sap production has been popping...your trees did great...Olivia is all bundled up looking warm😗

[@sofiavillasenor5307]

You guys are so awesome I love watching you videos .... you all are so sweet and really care about your followers that means a lot to all of us who care about your videos ❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@jimclaire7996]

Another great video. You will be getting a lot of syrup in your boil down today. Forty pounds is a heavy bucket to carry over the icy ground. It seems that you are blessed with lots of sap. The syrup is costing you a few bucks in propane, time and energy, but you seem to be getting a good return for you efforts. I admire someone who thinks ahead. God bless the project and your admirable efforts.

[@leonziofranceschet7089]

the wood stove is so nice

[@misskittykat594]

MAPLE SYRUP Al your maple syrup you just made looks really awesome, and I bet it will taste so much better than the store bought syrup. Al, you and Gina, and Olivia do such a good job on the farm doing so many wonderful things. I just love the way you all get together and do chores and cooking etc. I love seeing a family work so well like yours does. JOB WELL DONE LUMNAH ACRES FAMILY. MissKittyKat in California

[@gaylewatkins4685]

Great start to finish making maple syrup video. Take care ♥️

[@BraxxJuventa]

Wow! That's a lot of maple syrup there! You will never be able to eat that all! Thumbs up Lumnah's!!

[@suzisaintjames]

😉 with lots of love from sunny☀ Arizona🌵, chilly today 70/43f, 20 colder than last Thursday, Crazy!

[@bbnorthofnowhere4761]

HAPPY Maple Syrup! Great job harvesting that lovely sap. Olivia cracked me up! Courage, Barbara in Maine

[@lcrread]

Oh my goodness! What a great harvest of Maple sap and syrup! It must have smell so good too! Enjoy!

[@paulgargan6134]

Great job today

[@capt.sparrow34]

You can toss the ice aside as it contains zero sugar and doing so will reduce your boil time. I think your thermometer might be a little off, I have made enough syrup to know by sight that your syrup wasn't syrup yet.

[@heavenscenthomestead4242]

Just did our first boil. Had 48 gallons of sap. Got 1.75 gallons of beautiful syrup, They say the sap has a higher sugar content this year. so exciting and so delicious!

[@aliverseidge]

That's a wonderful bounty.

[@thebovineavenger]

Try just the ice together, than the liquid. Grandpa always did that. He said it make the boiling go faster and also help if there is any impurities. He says it makes it easier all the way around when boiling large batches. The ice will take longer so you will have time to concentrate on the liquid then you can give attention to the ice one just as it is getting ready to need your attention. He also did the ice on the wood stove and the liquid on a Homemade rocket stove. Less fuel and Less back and forth between the two saps. Hope that give you some ideas.

[@coreywassell]

Wow beautiful color

[@llkoon]

I want your outside kitchen and that antique stove.........so sweet.........

[@wendyknoxleet]

Fascinated. So different from my experience in northern Ontario Canada in 1956. Horde drawn etc. I am very lucky to have these videos to go back through. Excellent

[@jeannecooke4862]

Thank you!

[@chelemichele1524]

Nice amount of syrup this week...congrats

[@marlenereimchen9141]

Wow that's awesome!! Good for you guys

[@billpace3001]

Sometimes when you go to get your propane tank refilled they won't refill it because they say it is out dated and you need a new tank. Don't throw the tank away just yet. Take it home and hook it up to a camping type stove or griddle. Sometimes they are not empty yet. I've been using one for awhile now to fuel my "fry station" in my shed. Nothing smells like frying fish or chicken, etc. You can also ask friends for theirs.

[@leroywaller7604]

I am learning a lot from you.

[@RICHROOFER1]

nice haul,wishing for you to get plenty more

[@altonfindley6964]

Good morning to you too . I noticed that your head light was out last time you was plowing snow and I didn't say nothing , MY BAD !!! Sorry. ... Well I noticed that your check engine light was on this time , today when you was driving back to the kitchen ... Good job , I like your work . Keep it up 😀

[@dennisst.germaine3497]

In colonial times whiskey was used as currency, I think maple syrup is the new product currency, lol. Excellent job!

[@LumnahAcres]

That sounds like a good currency to me!

[@simidhel]

The smile on your face at 03:43 had the look of a proud happy hunter, or is that a sappy hunter? Congratulations on such an abundant quantity of sap and syrup on this run and it looks like spring is doing the best it can to start to flow with golden life. I agree with Olivia - it's never too cold for ice-cream! Incidentally, never do onscreen math: 9 plus 6 plus 11 1/2 is 26 1/2, not 27 1/2 - must have been a 20 below brain freeze! ;) 🍁 🔥 🛢 🥞

[@LumnahAcres]

Lol. Yup, it's like a treasure hunt! I need to remember to never do math on camera! :)

[@littlewhitedory1]

Lumnah Acres Come on now, Al's been hanging with Jake from White House On The Hill, it's CHICKEN MATH! All logic runs fuzzy and things don't always add up! ;-)

[@dpower02]

Nice Golden colored syrup.

[@mayhmmaydn]

Ooooh I'm login catching up on earlier episodes.

[@dawnakarma8913]

Wow `` Great Haul ~~:) Yummy!! Yummy!!

[@codeyford9428]

Wow that's a lot of syrup

[@Donutsnbeer]

now i really want some waffles. thanks Al....

[@craftybeeshomestead1050]

I can't wait to learn how to do that! Hoping within the next year or so

[@skylarhymers7222]

Great video Al

[@AliCT814]

That was a great video to watch over morning coffee, love your lives up there in NH 👍👍👍

[@Leslie_AvalonAcresFarm]

How exciting, that's liquid gold there! ~~Leslie

[@HeartinessApproach]

Your pan is amazing. I love this tapping trees stuff.

[@loriehabel1552]

Keep it going Al. Get it while you can💥

[@wendyknoxleet]

I really adore your content

[@richardbohlingsr3490]

Nice run of syrup. it has nice color too. YUM My guess is you will see more of that volume for a while. Still can't see any buds yet on your trees as you walk around. Still early in the season. My pecan trees are showing swelling of the buds right now. Still white grass though. Bees are not flying yet. It will not be long and time to plant peas.

[@homesteadinglife1017]

Great video. Thank you for taking the time to educate us.

[@ubetchya78]

Everyone and Pluto outside helping the boil, no doubt it was left to Mr Figaro to keep a good eye on the chicks... Did you forget the hot water filling the jug? A lot more jars of syrup for the Lumnah pantry, to be enjoyed by family and friends. After all this time the hogs may have forgotten what the electric wire means, even if their paddock does thaw out in time!

[@deborhasmith7746]

Totally awesome collection of sap today. Hopefully, we will get to do this next year. We will have to scout out some trees. We only have 2 walnut trees and pine on our property. I'll check with neighbors and barter with them. Fingers crossed. Thanks for taking us on this journey with you. I have really enjoyed this.

[@dianamallory8535]

That was a long video, enjoyed every minute thank you for sharing!

[@Blessings.429]

Take the rings off and place pot over the openings for a hotter boil

[@PfeilerFamilyFarm]

Al I am soo jealous! That is awesome the amount of sap you can collect. My girls are watching with me and they love seeing Pluto and how you boil down the sap. How big is that stock pot on the propane burner? That is a monster!! Ha Ha that darn check engine light...I replaced my coil packs and knock sensor and that fixed it! 03 Silverado problems...ugh.

[@LumnahAcres]

the pot holds 23 gallons, the engine light is on from an evap leak.

[@PfeilerFamilyFarm]

Lumnah Acres shoot that is a lot cheaper than coil packs and knock sensors!!

[@imari2305]

So much work for such a small amount. Now I understand why pur maple syrup cost so much in the stores. Thank you for sharing the process with us :-)

[@cathy9160]

😁😂😃😶🙄😇😎😀 love pure maple syrup and unpasteurized honey that is all we cook and bake with no refined sugar in our house we pay twenty bucks for a quart of maple syrup and ten bucks a quart for honey and well worth the cost.you are a wonder family and enjoy your videos very much your daughter is so cute and helping out in the kitchen.

[@offgridsweden]

That is so awesome. You got a lot of maple syrap. Greetings from Andreas on Off Grid Sweden

[@ridlboxlevitt7473]

Happy thanksgiving lumnah family

[@HomesteadingwiththeHeberts]

That is awesome. I like your setup. I really need to do a boil outside this year as I have gotten quite a bit of sap this weekend as well.

[@petergedenberg3885]

Throw the ice. It has little to no sugar content. Nature's r.o. Nice setup keep up the awesome vlogs

[@homesteadwannabee4253]

Your a brave person to do math on camera. Lol Now I'll be brave too. You could have gotten anoth 256th of a 128th of an ounce had you not splashed a bit. Hah! Sooo worth the time you spent. Blessings ~

[@thelazyj8658]

Very cool!

[@strykerf27q1983]

Great video. Those looked like red maples which have a lower sugar content then the sugar maples and have a completely different flavor but still really good 👍. I also boil my ice even though it's 90% water.

[@kleineroteHex]

Ahhh, you noticed the mess 😁

[@raymondmills9377]

Good stuff.. real maple syrup is devilishly expensive but oh so good.

[@harvestmaid5669]

I noticed your wood cook stove. I had one 1920s renoun

[@tangowhisky14]

Bet that was delicious.

[@edmondsonoffgridhomestead8932]

Sweet!

[@danielthomas8670]

i wish i could have some of the bottom scrappings maple candy on i miss it

[@murchlk]

Great color to it as well. I have been cooking mine over an open fire I may have to try it on the turkey fryer. Nice video 👍

[@LumnahAcres]

Does it take you a while cooking it over an open fire?

[@eddeetz493]

Great job and end result. Darn propane cost..Since you add moisture in the house could you freeze sap and let it humidify the house slowly. Great idea to pre heat and add more surface area. I wonder if you let a pot on the stove with enough volume to not worry until am when you stoke the fire and add sap vs water. Good luck. You hit the right year to get started. Sap may run thru April with your cold weather. Stay warm.

[@onewhitestone]

Heeey AL, I told you about that light last week, I guess you didn't read my comment. Also you have a code light on your dash, you need to get that fixed too. Good haul on sap today, you are doing well and should have enough soon for the rest of the year.

[@kirstenwhitworth8079]

Never having boiled sap before, it seems like starting with less volume and adding little by little gets it heated up quicker. Does that sound right? I love the fact that you can produce a sweetener on your homestead. I've got bees and am going to try growing stevia this year. I've got a few maples, but I don't think they are sugar maples. I might like to plant some, though. I'm in the PNW. I know other trees can yield syrup, too. Love having breakfast with you almost every day. 💟💝💟💝💟

[@RVBob]

All maple trees will yield maple sap that makes maple syrup, not just sugar maple.

[@salonisalvi3484]

Maple syrup 👍🏼👌🏽

[@nancyfahey7518]

Wow that's a lot a work. But it's real syrup. Definately worth it. You know the fake stuff sold in the stores. We used that for years not knowing. Then we found the real stuff and couldn't afford it. It was a delicacy in our house.

[@atheanicholls2199]

oh yeah Mr. Biggs, i hear yeah 🐓. Good morning Al Gina and Olivia have a great day today, till tomorrow same time same place God bless 👋 bye. 🐖🐥🐓🐓🐔🐔🐣🐣🐕🐈🚺🏡👍👍👍👍

[@wendyknoxleet]

Gorgeous pigs

[@hazelkagey6739]

So fascinating watching Maple Syrup being made! It took sooooo much sap to make it. Good thing you had so many trees! How long does it take to get that much sap?

[@OFFGRIDwithDOUGSTACY]

I CAN'T BELIEVE IT! ; )

[@LumnahAcres]

I bet you cant! :)

[@virginiareid5336]

Yum!

[@benbritch4696]

I love sugaring season I was using my grill but I finally up graded to a hobby Evaporater

[@benbritch4696]

Last year I made 15 qt jars of syrup on the grill it was awesome and I had a lot of fun been sugaring since I could walk

[@TalkingThreadsMedia]

What a shame that you did not get anything in the the way of maple syrup for 2019! 😢 Better luck next year. Best wishes from Kate in Olympia, WA - 5/1/2019.

[@straubdavid9]

Good morning Lumnahs! Nice batch of maple syrup Al ....... do you gather any other things (like berries) from your property or surrounding area? Thanks for posting and have a good one.

[@fooddude9921]

Congrats on the bounty! Your stockpile of syrup is rapidly adding up - any plans on marketing it to your followers? I'd love to purchase a 1/2 pint or pint to help fund your channel.

[@jogo6571]

How many pints have you gotten so far this year in all your boils Al??

[@charlescarlson8283]

That is a very good amount of sap for a couple of days. I'm getting about 2 gallons from 4 taps per day. Guessing you are using around $5.00 in propane per pint.

[@LumnahAcres]

Yes it is close to $5 per pint

[@simoncluley6033]

Hey Al be careful when your dropping them big pieces of ice into the pot.(you don't want to damage the temp probe)

[@desertplumranch6172]

Hubby says it is still a lot of work for so little but this time even he was super impressed by the amount of liquid you got! Mmmm...need some oatmeal or pancakes. #inmybelly

[@raymondlaney1369]

My maple trees are an hour away. I can boil the sap, but not sure of the final boil to 219. You think once I get close to the final boil, I can transport it home to my stove at my house and continue with the final boil? Will it spoil the syrup at all? Thank you.

[@inderwink]

🍎Have really enjoyed the maple syrup videos. I’m just amazed by the wonderful things you show one can make. And, I’ve def added an outdoor kitchen to my list of want-to-haves! Thx!🍎👩🏻‍🌾👍🏻

[@scottishnotirish]

How do you know when to stop draining off the sap? If you drain to much can you damage your trees?

[@LumnahAcres]

once the trees start to bud out, Yes you can put too many taps in a tree

[@codeyford9428]

27 degrees 😀