Well, not quite, but here is our first experiment with the 100-mile diet. This is more like the 100 yard-diet. We decided to try making maple syrup. The first part is easy. Drill a couple of holes, pound in taps and hang buckets. We have a large bucket ready to pour our sap into, and then we will freeze it until we figure out how to cook it.
Our options are the barbeque or the small camp-stove we lived off over the summer, or a fire-pit in the back-yard. We are on the hunt for the appropriate materials to cobble something together and to figure out what to use to cook it all in. The ratio is something like 40 to 1, so I expect at the end of all of this, we may yield a cup of syrup. But it will be amazing syryp, cause we made it ourselves!!
I only hope we tapped a maple tree and not an oak!
