We’ve been boiling sap into maple syrup over the past few weeks and made about 20 gallons. This boil was on March 3rd, 2024. Since then, cold weather has returned and the sap is not flowing. We’ll begin collecting again when warm weather returns.
We began tapping trees on 2/21/24. This is the warmest winter on record, and probably the earliest sugaring season we've ever had. Way earlier than historic sugaring season dates, before rapid climate change created this new normal (on average 3 degrees warmer than 100 years ago). The sugaring season has trended earlier in the year by several weeks on average, but this is the most extreme we've seen yet. We’re at over 2200’ elevation in the high peaks of the Adirondacks so tend to be a little later than most others in New York.
Maple syrup production is especially sensitive to changes in climate, because the trees need below-freezing temperatures during the winter and a range of temperatures during late winter or early spring to produce sap.
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This is the highest elevation farm and sugarbush in New York, at Camp Treetops & North Country School. It’s a 220-acre educational farm/school/camp in the chilly High Peaks Region of the Adirondack Mountains in upstate New York, USDA Zone 4a.
29 сен 2024
