No for real – a story about sap ; ) Today’s Big Woods chapter was about Maple Sugaring. We found these two sites that give a children’s version of how it is done today. We will be making a notebook page and a Venn diagram comparing the process as it was a hundred years ago to now. Its snowing today here so I am hoping we can drop some syrup outside for snow candy. Or that those of us who can walk that far can lol!
This guide goes along with this chapter also. What I love about these bks is that almost any of the chapters could stand alone as a small study if you didn’t want to commit to a whole bk study.
Misc sites:
Starry Sky Journal 
Remind me to send you pictures in March!!! Lots of people around here do their own sugaring, just with the trees in their yard or around their property. I hear you need about 6 good sized trees to do it, and we have 4. We’ve been sort of poking around looking for more in our treeline. The only problem is the fire has to boil the sap day and night, and you have to have an enormous amount of sap to get a little bit of syrup.
Many of the saphouses around here have pancake/maple syrup breakfasts during the month of March. Unfortunately we didn’t make it to any last year, but this year since the babies are older I’m hoping we’ll have the chance! Good quality maple products are a real perk of living in upstate New York. Until I moved here I had no idea what maple cream even was, and now I know that it was one of the finest luxuries of life! 😉
How interesting! There is a chapter or two on sugaring in Farm Boy too.