Sunday, March 14, 2010

First Maple Bush Experience

There's nothing like sitting down to a yummy homemade breakfast with REAL Ontario maple syrup! I enjoyed trotting through the bush with friends Cristy and Tim to get my real Canadian experience - the sugar bush!
This syrup farm, is quite extensive and so (obviously) don't use the archaic way (the bucket on the tree) rather they run lines and you can actually see the sap running from thousands of acres of wooded maples. It runs into the "sugar shack" which is not really a shack but a huge building where huge boilers boil, boil, boil the maple until it becomes sweet and yummy.
And of course, it wouldn't really be Canadian without the whole get-up.

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