Simpson's Rocky Ridge Maple Syrup

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Maple Syrup Cooking House, 1945

 

This last year we have been putting videos of the current as well as past seasons out to our new YouTube Channel - Rocky Ridge Maple Syrup

 Here are a few links to these videos. Please subscribe to get the latest postings. Enjoy!

 

2022 Maple Season

Cooking or "Boiling" maple sap - April 21 - 2022

Big freeze-up mid April 2022

Collecting Maple Sap - 2022

Checking remote sap tank

Pumping Sap - 1/2 mile out of the woods - 2022 (complete with Owl hootings)

Checking Sap flow - April 2022

Spotting damage to 3/16 sap lines

Sap bag holders - make your own

Sterilized or New spiles increase sap flow

3/16 sap line - 26 inches of vacuum - how to protect

Cooking or "boiling" maple sap - April 2022

 

 

 

 

Historical Videos from Rocky Ridge

Gathering Sap -- 1939-40 (with Dolly our horse)

 

 

 

 



Maple Syrup Cooking House, 2005

In the 1930's our Father, William Simpson, acquired a Bell and Howell movie camera and began taking home movies. The following is a home movie he make in 1939 of gathering Sap in our family's Maple Sugar bush using our horse Dolly.

Home Movie showing Gathering Sap in the 1930s