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SouthDown Farm
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From our holler to your table! SouthDown Farm is Micro-farm in the hills of southeast Kentucky. We are southern sugar makers who are proudly making Kentucky maple syrup from the maple trees on our steep rugged eastern Kentucky forested hillside property. Join us in watching how we make maple syrup here in Kentucky. In the other three seasons we grow an amazing amount of vegetables in a very small area using intensive market gardening methods. We love to share what we are learning about raising food for our family and for the market. We have an on farm permitted commercial kitchen where we make value added products with our produce by baking and processing what we grow...think carrot cake scones, cucumber bread, Jalapeño Cheddar scones, Grape Jelly roasted garlic Roma tomato sauce and Jalapeño Salsa just to name a few. Everyday is a learning adventure for us on SouthDown, come learn with us! We invite you to look around our website SouthDownky.com to learn more.
Road Trip: Highland County VA Maple Festival Laurel Fork Sapsuckers Sugar Camp Visit
The Kentucky Maple Syrup Association leadership had the honor of visiting the Highland County Maple Syrup Festival in March 2024. In this video we enjoy a visit to Laurel Fork Sapsuckers Sugar Camp. Thanks to Future Generation University for hosting our trip to WV & VA!
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Sweetie Catches the Bee Swarm
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It’s that time of year in Central Appalachia when honey bees swarm. This is the Lord’s design for bee propagation. 50%-60% of the honey bees engorge themselves with honey and force the old queen out of the hive looking for a new home. The newly hatched queen stays behind to mate with drones and start laying eggs for the hive that is left behind. This swarm landed in the tree then went back to t...
Down Low and Up Close In Huge A Bee Swarm!
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Our first honey bee swarm happened today April 12, 2023. We are thankful to successfully hive this nice swarm of bees.
Our 2023 Kentucky Maple Syrup Season Begins With a New Evaporator!
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We were so excited to begin the season this year with our new 2x6 Smoky Lake Raised Flue SSR high Output evaporator. This thing is fast…We were so pleased to cut down on our time and firewood this year. The blower is worth every penny! For more information check out the link below: www.smokylakemaple.com/product/corsair-evaporator-w-raised-flue-pan-set-ssr-config-customize-it/
Harvesting Firewood for making Kentucky Maple Syrup
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In an effort to be a good steward of the resources the Lord has given us it is always helpful to use dead trees on our property for fuel to heat our home and fuel the Smoky Lake 2x6 maple syrup evaporator. The 200ft of cables and snatch blocks make this process more efficient than ever before. Come watch us drag the logs off the mountain side, cut them up and split the logs into firewood.
Using Smoky Lake Maple Products Finish, Filter and Bottle Kentucky Maple Syrup
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In this video you will see the following Smoky Lake Maple Products being used to finish, filter and bottle the last batch of Maple Syrup in 2023: Murphy Compensation Cup www.smokylakemaple.com/product-category/testing-instruments/density-testing/murphy-cups-and-floats/ 7” Filter Press www.smokylakemaple.com/product/filter-press-air-6filter/ DE Filter Aid www.smokylakemaple.com/product/de-filter...
How Did the 2023 Kentucky Maple Syrup Season Go? We are Finished!!
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We are finishing, filtering and bottling the last maple syrup of the 2023 Kentucky Maple Syrup season. How did it go? Well, not so well… In this video we give the stats as compared to the 2022 season.
Too Warm, Maple Sap Not Running So We Split Firewood For the 2024 Season!
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A quick video about splitting and hauling firewood in out IBC totes. This firewood will be the fuel for our 2024 maple syrup season.
Kentucky Maple Syrup Day How Our Evaporator Works Explaination
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We had 350 /- visitors at our farm during the 2023 Kentucky Maple Day event on SouthDown. This video begins with the crowd coming to purchase home made baked goods made with maple syrup. Some visitors come to learn how we make maple syrup in KY. Listen to this young sugar maker give an explanation to guests about how our Smoky Lake 2x6 high performance raised flue evaporator works.
Kentucky Maple Syrup Day Sugarbush Tour on SouthDown Farm
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The 2023 4th annual Kentucky Maple Syrup Day was a hit! More than 350 people came out to the farm to learn about making maple syrup in Kentucky, to purchase maple syrup, baked goods and to take ATV tours into the hills behind the sugar shack to learn how we collect our maple sap. We had three side by sides going but could not keep up with the amount of people wanting to take a tour. In this vid...
Smoky Lake Maple Products Filter Press and Steam Bottler In Action
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2023 Kentucky Maple Syrup Season and we are getting ready for our Kentucky Maple Syrup Day event by filtering and bottling our last run of maple syrup!
Firewood! Pulling Trees with Snatch Blocks, Cables and Pullers
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We use a word fired evaporator to make Kentucky Maple Syrup on SouthDown. We cut up wood from trees that fall. We recently invested in snatch blocks, cables and pullers to help us get firewood that was not accessible for us in the past. The snatch blocks are pulleys that can increase pulling power. In this video we pull a nice shag bark hickory that was laying on the mountain side.
16x24 Sugar Shack Set Up 2023 Season
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Perhaps this video may help someone think about how they might want to construct and set up their sugar shack. We are running 330 /- taps this season. The sugar shack is a 16’x24’ building with 6/12 scissor trusses sporting a cupola at the ridge. Out sugar shack consist of a 400G sap tank out side, Leader Micro 2 RO, 300G concentrate tank, permeate tank, Smoky Lake 2x6 Raised Flue evaporator.
First Boil On Our Smoky Lake 2x6 High Output Raised Flue SSR Maple Syrup Evaporator
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SouthDown Farm upgraded our evaporator for the 2023 season! Come join us as we fire this evaporator up for the very first time!
Taping Maple Trees in Kentucky, Let the 2023 Maple Syrup Season Begin!
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January 6, 2023 we began tapping the maple trees on SouthDown farm so that we can collect the sweet sap that flows from the trees during the freeze-thaw cycles in our Kentucky winter.
How to Install Firebricks in a Smoky Lake Corsair Arch
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How to Install Firebricks in a Smoky Lake Corsair Arch
Garlic Scapes: When and How to Harvest
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Garlic Scapes: When and How to Harvest
How We Build Light Weight Chicken Tractors With Cattle Panels
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How We Build Light Weight Chicken Tractors With Cattle Panels
Grab the 12 Gauge…We Have a Bee Swarm!
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Grab the 12 Gauge…We Have a Bee Swarm!
CDL Silver Spouts New For the 2022 Maple Season
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CDL Silver Spouts New For the 2022 Maple Season
Up Close Capturing a Bee Swarm in the Wood Pile
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Up Close Capturing a Bee Swarm in the Wood Pile
One of the Most Under Appreciated Tools On The Farm
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One of the Most Under Appreciated Tools On The Farm
Aftermath of Devastating Flood on Old Home Place Farm in Eastern Kentucky
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Aftermath of Devastating Flood on Old Home Place Farm in Eastern Kentucky
Some People Like It Hot, Infused Kentucky Maple Syrup
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Some People Like It Hot, Infused Kentucky Maple Syrup
I'm Australian not sure we even have this here reading it in a romance novel set in Montana .
Basically using your little pad over and over you are just spreading germs everywhere. Yuk!
Grew up in Skippack, PA and ate it my entire life. Goschenhoppen Folk Festival was my fondest scrapple memory on fresh baked bread and Pennsylvania Dutch apple butter!
I love a traditional sugarhouse with a cupola, iconic New England. Do you have plans to add a Leader Steam Away on the flue pan to preheat the sap to near boiling and concentrate the sap a few percent more, plus having lots of hot water to rinse items is nice? It would still allow a bit of steam coming off the syrup pan to hang in the air. Great idea with the IBC tote cages, you may consider stacking a 3 hardwood pallets and then put the tote of wood on top so that you do not have to be bending down to pick up firewood. I have seen others that put their evaporator on a raised concrete pad so they do not have to bend over.
Did you just build the cupola above the trusses?
Scrapple is amazing there na
Sorry that this was your last batch. Grew up in Philly.
Truck driver for Usps I seriously despise that this is allowed to happen. Of course we all know they care more about profits than human animals. As far as I’m concerned this Is Definitely animal cruelty. You have to be a fool that Tail never get left in the yard for hours on it and regularly die sitting transport. I feel like such a bad person when I have to put them in my trailer. I’m the Only one of 200 drivers I know of that will bring A BOX up front in tractor so they can get a break from heat/cold etc and it’s against our rules n to do so. Please people go to your local farms and Stop supporting this cruelty 🤬😡
Where I live in the south west, Scrapple doesn't exist! : ( It was my favorite breakfast food when I lived on the east coast!
I live in Washington state and we are a Habbersett family... my grandparents lived in Lancaster, PA.
How big was the base?
7’x8’
Good stuff
Such a shame. Kolbs Meats closed soon after this was filmed. I always got my hams there. As for store bought scrapple, I prefer Hatfields...I find habbersets can be too livery for me.
Scrapple needs PEPPER
Scrapple better than bacon.
What do we call that process taking place
Plucking
We sale this Landscape/garden fabric with holes
Who is we?
This is a great video! Thanks for sharing.
proud to live
I grew up in NJ but moved to Texas. When I visit home I always get my fill of scrapple. We have a Hispanic version here called pannas but it’s not seasoned well & is mostly cornmeal
Check it out! You guys were featured on a recent Get To The Farm Bonus shout out vid!
Thanks but that Southdown in the video is not us…
It’s a two hole strap. Not a conduit connector. Thanks to this VIDEO I get to make two of these. Thanks for NOTHING. My wife is the chicken person. I am the builder for all of these things!!! Seriously thank you for explaining it so I can even understand it. Btw…I’m an electrician! Lol
Then for you it is truly a labor of love 🤣 thanks!
@@southdownfarm6323 no I hate this type of work. I just not wealthy enough to hire others to support my laziness.
What do you feed your meat chickens to get them that big
We feed them 18% chick starter their whole short life. The large size of the chickens is because of the breed, these are XRock chickens.
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The video is nice but not very helpful for someone like myself or others who have the drop flue pans. There is absolutely nothing on the internet that goes into details of the boiling down process of the sap stuck in those flues. Does it get wasted, boiled off? How does the sap in those flues get boiled off without burning or scorching the pan? I bought this type of evaporator this year from the flat pan and burned the first batch yesterday and trying so hard to google anything that will answer those question and have had no success.
Sorry, I only have experience with a raised flue pan set up.
I have a Smoky Lake 2x4 hobby pro with drop flue. The boil agitates the sap which keeps it suspended and moving into the syrup pan. We have made over 300 gals on that rig.
@@systemsofcounseling That is fantastic! What part of the country do you live in?
How do you all go about cleaning your pans? And how often?
Normally clean them at the end of the season. At the end of the season I will let the sweet sit in the pans fermenting. This process creates a vinegar like acid that cleans up the pans. The pans will then be taken off the arch and the fire side 3:28 pressure washed in the off season.
Just A little Ketchup!!
Did you ever have your evaporator all freeze up do to cold?
Yes, often but it does not harm the evaporator.
@@southdownfarm6323 thanks I was just worried that maybe the freeze may crack a part of the flu pan,but I fired it up today and it seems fine.
The wash bucket… is that for mixing preservative for your RO between runs?
After each ro use we do a rinse-wash-rinse cycle. It’s for the wash cycle where we recirculate the ro soap to clean the membranes.
@@southdownfarm6323 thanks for the reply! Definitely will be looking more into depth on the process. Last year I didn’t wash between runs and the filters got funky. I believe I did clean them somehow and they were fine luckily.
There is me the little kid in the back
Hi Caitlin :)
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Love this! You have an amazingly delicious operation going on! 😊 Glad I found you, new subscriber from Ontario 🇨🇦🍁💖🦋
Welcome to the world of sugaring in the south! If interested, check out our FB page too.
Fantastic thank you
Our pleasure!
Great video thanks. I’m building mine this year. So what type of insulation did you put before the metal roofing to keep down the condensation? Thanks
Used a white/foil radiant barrier that is commonly used for metal roof installations. It’s like bubble wrap and about a quarter inch thick. I purchased it locally from a metal roof supplier.
Silver side down also reflects light nicely.
my chicken wont stop moving though. why is yours so behaved?
Might want to give it a go through the cone first. 😅
Bahahaha!😂😂😂😅
😂
CRAZY 😂😂😂
Williamsport, PA native, living in southern California and I love scrapple!
We spend time in the Little Pine Creek valley North of Williamsport each year…
How do you attach the insulation to the evaporator?
Good question…The insulation is fairly stiff, cut it a smidgen large then tuck it in and it will stay in place on its own.
Thanks so much!
Love it!
I purchased the same unit, ‘this will be my first year they thought I should get sight glasses for both float boxes so I did not sure I understand everything. Do you rely on sight glasses?
For me the sight glasses serve as an at a glance quick look to make sure things are at the right level.
@@southdownfarm6323 thanks. Now that I put in my first year of boiling I understand things much better,except one thing. When it’s the last boil and you have both pans with concentrated sap, other than dumping it or putting into a turkey fry pot and taking 10 hrs to cook it down, what do you do with it?
@@darrengarlough5121 we drain the sweet boil it down on the stove to the point of maple syrup. This last batch we keep for ourselves to enjoy, its usually a bit darker than the rest.
We keep the rest of the sweet in the pans then flood with sap. Leave this ferment which creates a vinegar like acid. We leave it sit in the pans a few weeks then rinse clean. The fermented sap cleans up all the minerals and sugar sand in the pans.
Do you you find yourself having to tip the unit up some to get all the sunup?
Yes! I have a stick of wood about 1-1/4” thick that we put under the back of the unit tilting it forward the whole time we are using it. This works pretty well.
@@southdownfarm6323 ok thank you and merry Christmas
Once bottled, how long do you have to wait before you sell it?
It’s ready to sell right away, it is good right off the bat but does improve with a little age.
Not convenient
Perhaps but It works great and is super affordable!
We just moved to Kentucky this fall. We’re hoping to make syrup this year. Can you give me an idea of the time frame we can expect the sap run. I realize it’s weather dependent, but just a general window.
We normally tap our trees the first two weeks of January and go to the end of February. What area of the state did you move to?
We’re in Grayson county near Caneyville.
@@KowalskiMountain do you know about the Kentucky Maple Syrup Association? It is a good way to meet producers in the state. kymaplesyrup.com/
Wasn’t that deversion piece suppose to be covered in insulation as well? I just got my evaporator and getting ready to brick mine.
You are exactly right! I changed it after the video was made and someone pointed that out to me. All the best!
Thank you for this video. I built mine almost identical to yours only slightly bigger. And yes….. I made my sliding door 10ft high. Great setup👍
Thanks! What state are you in?
South central PA just west of Gettysburg
That coop is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay to muddy and nasty. That is why your eggs are so dirty. Get them a decent coop, that has a dry floor.
How hot is the water
Should be Scalding
Beautiful Set Up!! However,could you ever produce enough syrup too cover all that cost??
My parents were from the deep south and my mom made this for us every year between Christmas and New Year. We use to slice it and fry it up in a skillet and eat it with eggs or grits. Delicious 😋.
Vice the drill to a table and zip tie the trigger. Let’s you have both hands for maneuvering