The Finished Product!

Sugarin is a real process, a real labor of love. We ended up with 96 ounces....that's not quite ONE GALLON!  Our syrup is super-dark, definitely would be considered a Grade B or lower if there is one, I think our evaporator set-up allows the sugar to carmelize too much.  We'll be working on that for this weekends boil.

So, Even if syrup is selling for $60 a gallon, and even if we don't count all of the time that we spent setting up, lugging buckets, designing and building the evaporator....and only count the two long, full days of sap boiling....we made 2.25 dollars and hour!  We're gonna really have to step step step it up if this is going to be a income-producing product.  Here's Fox Hollow Farm's first syrup of 2011: