Maple Season 2021 Comes to an End
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
- It is officially the last day of the 2021 Maple Season and we are retiring the old sugar shanty.
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Boxler Maple Farm, is a family owned farm located in Western New York. Our family spends our time learning, growing, and working together to build a life we are proud of.
Any woman that can drive that Kenworth tanker is all right in my book! Great job Nikki!
Wow, the end of an era and the beginning of a new one. Best wishes always.
Pass by your farm quite often on my way along 20A..... Didn't know you had this operation there.
Yup but will be moving soon!
I know that old milk truck I drove it for over a year. Great video I enjoyed it!
soon you won't be able to recognize it once it gets a makeover!
@@MapleFarmer can't wait to see it. It is long overdue.
Great job Nikki. I enjoy your videos. Looking forward to your new “shanty”.
My gosh you are pretty!
Thanks for taking us along on the 2021 adventure. I am sure you and your family have some lifelong memories to talk about in the years to come. See you in the new Shanty next year. Cheers!
Your Dad and bro...didn't want to get too syrupy with the nostalgia.....sorry had to do it....great vid....really enjoy them
Love your videos Nikki. Your dad seems like such a chill guy and your brother looks like his younger clone! :)
My brother is literally a clone of him! 😂 my dad is super fun
👍awesome!! Did I see double clutching🤣
Great video.. Week into April, pretty good season🤗
Nikki is a bad ass. I’ve been sugaring my whole life as well. Smaller scale about 800 taps. My father taught me how it’s done as well. Lost him in 2016 I pour him the first shot of syrup every year. Looks like you got a great dad too and family. Your new sugar house looks amazing.
Turning hard work into fun that's the best way to get things done great video
Thanks for watching! My dad and brother are fun to be around!
This reminds me of when we used to make apple cider at night after working in the orchard of the day. Thanks for the videos!
Thanks for sharing you did an excellent job videoing. Looking forward to seeing you and your family in the new building next winter.
I hope that batt blue sign goes to new building too.....!!!
Just looking at all the piping and electrical there is a lot of work ahead to move all that equipment!
You people ain't messing around. Hard workers, nice video!!
Thanks for watching!
Enjoy the the video Nikki you do a excellent job you make it easy to understand your process in the making of your Maple Syrup. Just ordered some Maple Syrup today Nikki. God Bless your day Nikki. ❤
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I can't wait to see the set up in the new place Nickki !!!!
Great video! It's always sad to leave something you've been in literally your entire life. But I'm sure you (and your dad and brother) are looking forward to the new building. Hopefully the dairy is better than the maple season. That's the farming life! Thank you for sharing your videos. I really appreciate them.
We absolutely LOVE maple syrup in our home! Thank you so much for all your hard work to get this amazing natural product to market so we can buy it! "See" you all in the next video!
Thank you so much for tuning in! Maple Syrup is such a game changer in cooking and coffee too!
Drive by your farm every time we go to Pa. we live in Ontario
You will have to stop by when we have the new building up and running!
Need to see a picture of the The Special
😢 yep I was thinking 🤔 that this morning ❤️❤️
I enjoyed the whole series. Great to see a family work together at their own business(es). And we got to see you shift the truck this time!
I told him about that comment so I think he purposely tried to show it!! haha
Cool vid! Great maple farm, that evap is the dream haha
Thank you Maple sweet girl. Pray you had a great Easter. God Bless.
Was a cool series Nikki thanks for sharing
Thanks for following along! More videos will be coming with after season stuff and of the new building
Love your videos your the best.. God Bless
Nice Building,,Nite,,Nite,,Guys
Congratulations Nikki, your videos are very interesting, you have a very nice family business, when the border opens I will do the 650 kilometers from Montreal, to go see you.
You will have to visit when our new building is open!!
@@MapleFarmer Yes that's right👍👍👍😁😁😁
I LOVE the maple syrup.. Thank you hundred times for your work!!
Another great video. Can't wait for more next season.
Thank you for watching!
I love the Labatt Blue sign in the sugar shanty!
we never even plugged it in once this year...missed opportunity! haha
Now the fun work begins with the last of boiling 'clean up time'
Seriously, so much work ahead
@@MapleFarmer I hate clean up of course the excitement of the season over so it seems it drags on forever
Great video Nikki
Thanks so much! I'm trying to improve my videos as I go. Thinking maybe I need to get a microphone!
You do a very nice job with the video. I help out a guy with his maple operation up here in Maine he currently has around 15000 taps. All run to the sugar house. He just finished building a new house this fall and got a new 5x16 evaporator. Would like to see more videos of the dairy farm
Nice! Maybe I'll work in some dairy farm videos soon!
@@MapleFarmer that would be cool. I also have worked on a dairy farm. I came down with cancer five years ago so I had to give up doing farming. I miss working with cows
A good use for the empty space would be to store hardwood mushroom spawn logs and or grow rooms. Mushrooms would expand your syrup sales and vice versa. Especially to restaurants and retailers.
It’s currently located in the middle of the dairy farm so it will be used as storage
I came up on this channel this week but i must say i love it, i love maple syrup and i love beautiful women and its all in one video so i am a big fan now haha. Love your videos, keep up the great work guys ;) I now have to catch up on your videos so i got some watchin to do LOL
Welcome aboard!
@@MapleFarmer Welll thank you ;)
What a great family!
Another awesome video Nikki!!.. Seeing your family's syrup operation never get's old.. Will the equipment inside the shanty be moved to the new building??.. Or is there new equipment on the way for the new place??.. Looks like expensive stuff to buy!!.. That's alot of stainless!!.. Have a nice week.. BTW, your dad & brother are some cool dudes!!..
We wanted a new evaporator but this year we only produced about half a crop so a new evaporator isn’t in the cards 😢
Such a great way to end the season. Nice work.
Gee I made a whole 2 gallons this year.
Thank you for the memorable day at the sugar shanty. Kinda sad in a good way, eh?
To celebrate you should make the worlds largest stack of pancakes and cover it with syrup.
I agree!!! 😂
What will be done with the old sugar shanty? will it be dismantled and equipment sold or will it be kept in working order so that you have a backup system? What can be done to expand the number of trees you have both now and in the future? I would be pushing to cull trees that are not maple any place I had control of the trees and planting more maples. I do not know what the dangers of having an all maple tree forest are or if there are any dangers. One partial solution would be to plant some other maples other than Sugar Maple just to mix up the woods a bit. When planting a new forest I would plant more trees then would really do well in the space at full size and then cut out the ones that are too close together giving firewood... If I understand things correctly it may take 40 years to get a maple tree to size. Could be that jewelweed can push back against poison ivy and other unwanted plants. I just did a quick google on it so more and more reliable information would be needed. It sounds like it is 2-5 feet tall in summer and dies down for winter so that is perfect!
Hey New subscriber. Question. What state are you from ? Very entertaining. Thanks. Craig. Pa.
Welcome! We are located in New York!
will you be updating videos of the new sap house through the summer?
Yes I will be!
I'm brand new here on your channel.
It is interesting for me to know something completely new.
Maple syrup is not something big here, so I did not know how it is made.
By the way
I just subscribed.
Welcome! If there is anything specific you would like to learn more about please let me know!
@@MapleFarmer I have been watching some videos, about your syrup production and also tree care. I look forward to seeing more of your business. I'm not a farmer, but I grew up in the country. The only thing I grow is potatoes and this year I will try corn.
Hi. I discover your channel thanks to NyFarmGirls. very interesting on a culture that I do not know. a farmer who follows you from Switzerland. Good luck for the future.
greetings François.
Welcome! My family is originally from Switzerland and still have some relatives there! Beautiful country!
@@MapleFarmer surprisingly, how many generations? and what a place (contry) to the pleasure of following your work in the maples, I learn a lot. greetings François.
I couldn't make through the whole episode, I hate "sappy" old good byes. 🤣
Wow your pretty 😍
Have you tried putting maple syrup in old/used whiskey/bourbon barrels for different flavoring, we bought some in Big Sky Montana
How did you do?? We normally make 400 gallons or more off of 1800 taps but only got 178 gallons this year..we got a late start became of deep snow and health issues for both dad and i and the season ended quick.. we are both life long sugar makers but dads done (he,s 80 years old and has health issues now) and i,am not sure if i,ll keep tapping.i can,t do that many taps or more by myself (i have health issues from a logging accident) and i don,t have backup without hiring somebody to help...we,ll see i guess..good luck with the sugarhouse move.
we made just a little over half of our typical crop this year. production was terrible in our area
I,am part of the lewis country producers but live in very south saint lawrence county ny and half or alittle more is what i keep hearing for production.
Why would you go to all this trouble when you can buy Log Cabin in the grocery store? 😜
It appears that you also have a dairy operation. Do you have a channel covering that
Yes we do have a diary farm as well! I don't currently have a channel for our dairy but I was debating if I should cover that side of farming!
How do you time and help enough to run a dairy and maple operation of this scale?
My dad is literally always working. On the dairy side we have 40+ employees
So what do you do to clean your main line in your woods and your feed lines
Are you bringing up your current equipment to the new sugar house or upgrading? Thanks for your hard work and sharing!!
We would like to upgrade but with the terrible season we had it looks like the old stuff will be moving with us. Lol
When your family first started making syrup was the plan to have a big operation?
No, dad just doesn't know what the meaning of hobby is 😂
@@MapleFarmer We call it a sickness! 😁 Every year has to be bigger, better, more taps, etc
@@MapleFarmer 🤣😂👌
I call it ‘maples madness’, no cure leads to wanting more or bigger everything: trees; taps; sugar house; evaporator. Only slows down by banker intervention!
Are you taking all that equipment to the new building?
yes sir!
We just finished last night. We didn’t have any sap over 2.5%
That’s crazy that you all are finishing up the same time as us. Usually up north gets a few more days on us
@@MapleFarmer could have went maybe another day or so but poor quality this season. Low sugar content. Just a very poor season. I’m just south of Ottawa.
Son in law shut theirs down this weekend as well...Short season...
Really short season. Very disappointing!
Nikki how do I get one of those nice sweatshirts that you're wearing in this video???
Open top stainless tanks? Not concerned about contamination in the sap?
So when the season is done for collecting sap, do you have to remove all the lines from the trees or just stop collecting?
We collect the sap every couple of hours while it is running. Most of our woods run into a silo, we are hoping to add a silo to the one in the video next year! When the season is done we remove all spout from trees and take off the drop lines. The drop lines, spouts, tanks, and all lines in the woods are cleaned and sanitized.
Great video! Question, what kind of conditions do you need for the summer months to help produce the best output of the trees for the winter harvest.
Do you require a commercial drivers license for your tanker truck? Any plans to add a second tanker truck or upgrade to a bigger one to speed up sap collection operation?
Yes I have my CDL. Also once the new building is done one of the woods will flow right to it leaving us with less sap to transport! This truck holds 6,000 gallons
With everything you 3 do as a team should be that you are a third partner in the operation.
Who dented the tank in the back, somebody backed into something?
It's an old milk truck that we bought, it was dented before we bought it and haven't gotten around to fixing it yet
Do you guys also dairy farm?
Yes we do!
If the sap is running well why is it the last load? Is there a time you have to stop to not hurt the tree?
question for you : How do you know when you need to shut off trees or sections? (I do a bit for hobby only but had a bad tasting final batch this year).
So what do y'all do the rest of the year lol
My dad owns and operates a large Dairy farm. My brother is a diesel mechanic by day and I work in marketing! (All have full time jobs, maple is our hobby!)
Who is the buyer of your suryp?
I'm guessing you're using the same trucks to haul milk as you did to haul raw maple syrup?
We bought an old milk truck that is now only used for sap.
How was your over all seasons yield? Im due east of Lake Ontario and this was 2nd worse season we have on record from 4 generations and the earliest end to a season we have had. Im sitting on half crop at best and tomorrow is the last boil here.
Terrible season here made between 1/2 and 2/3 of a crop
Are you moving any of the equipment to the new building?
Yup! All of it. We were hoping to get a new evaporator but with the terrible season that won’t be happening 😂
My sugar content dropped toward the end of the season as well. Mine are all Red Maple. Do you have a mix?
Mainly sugars
Can the unprocessed sap freeze and if so does that have any effect on the finished syrup?
Could you tell me what label carries your maple syrup, I would love to buy some
Because of freezing temps isn't there a risk of the pumps and hard line plumbing at the various locations getting ruined if it freezes for too long. Also can't the plastic piping from tree to tree freeze up and even if that plastic can handle the expansion it would prevent the sap from being drawn through the system. Or does sap somehow not freeze until a lower temp then the water freezing point ?
Sap freezes. Therefore we have to turn them on and off depending on the temperature. Also we have heaters in our pump houses to keep the pumps from freezing
@@MapleFarmer Ok that all makes sense although that pump on the open style holding tank is sitting outside or do you close off the tank valve and then drain the pump out each time. I can see its a real challenge and having the proper setup to keep expensive items from the nasty grasp of "Mr Frost". Sometime you could make a video bringing up that whole aspect as its easy to overlook that as a viewer as we always see flowing sap in the tanks and lines.
We drain that pump each time.
in a season, how many truckloads do you fill? Was that all the sap shown for one season, ie 9600 gallons, and how m many taps does that come from?
That was just for one terrible day. When the sap is running good we will get 6 truckloads
How many cows u milking, nice operation!!
About 2800
Our sap tested pretty terrible this year. Seemed like it averaged just under 2%.
@@dzl6848 Usually we test 2-2.5, we have around 20,000 taps currently.
@@jaredlaroche523 oh that's really good.
You must be further north! We are happy when we get an average of 2% here in NY!
Maple Farmer yep! On the Canadian - Vermont border.
We buy some sap from people who use buckets. When we test theirs it’s not uncommon to see it in the 3% range.
What happens with the remaining sap in the lines when the season is done? Do you just leave a valve open off season so any addition sap will just flow into the ground then shut the valve on the first sign of winter?
We pull all the taps and run water through all the lines to clean them out
@@MapleFarmer All 32,000 taps? Damn!! You must have "Thor" (or sore) legs after that work load.
I hope you’re guy treats you like a princess you’re all I want to find in a partner love your videos
I kinda wonder where the Goddess genes come from.
Good lighting
@@MapleFarmer I'll have to remember that, there's always good lighting in New York state LOL ( actually its very refreshing to hear a comment like that as some women who get complements about their looks start thinking the sun revolves around them and their attitude towards others reflects that, I'm sure you know what I mean )
You don't have to take those abusive remarks from your father. Two remarks in the first five minutes.. SHAME OLD MAN..!!
Haha if you consider that abuse you don’t want to hear the things I say to him 😂 my dad is hilarious and we are constantly giving each other hell! that is how we show each other we care.
If so..enjoy your holidays... I sell sod so draw your own conclusion...