{"id":355,"date":"2011-03-21T19:24:24","date_gmt":"2011-03-21T23:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/outdooredguys.wordpress.com\/?p=355"},"modified":"2011-03-21T19:24:24","modified_gmt":"2011-03-21T23:24:24","slug":"banner-start-to-maple-syrup-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/environmental-education\/2011\/03\/21\/banner-start-to-maple-syrup-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Banner Start to Maple Syrup Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Laurel Creek Outdoor Education Centre has surpassed last year&#8217;s maple syrup production already, and we have tanks of sap yet to boil. In a normal syrup season (March 1-April 10-ish).\u00a0we usually produce 150 litres of syrup.\u00a0Last year was our worst year ever with only 58 litres made.\u00a0 So far this spring we have made 60 litres. As long as we keep getting sub-zero temperatures, when the temperature pops above freezing the sap will run.\u00a0Once it stays above freezing for a few days in a row, we are usually done.\u00a0The tree starts to use its sugar to make leaves, the sugar content in the sap drops, and the sap tastes bad.\u00a0Pretty good weather for the classes visiting so far, but they are calling for some snow on Wednesday.\u00a0A lot of parents\u00a0are saying the weather is\u00a0wonky this year, but it seems pretty standard for March. Last year at this time the temperatures were warm for several days in a row and sap flows fizzled out.<a href=\"http:\/\/outdooredguys.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/03\/march-break-024-1500.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-356\" title=\"liquid gold\" src=\"http:\/\/outdooredguys.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/03\/march-break-024-1500.jpg?w=682\" alt=\"\" width=\"682\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/environmental-education\/files\/2011\/03\/march-break-024-1500.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/environmental-education\/files\/2011\/03\/march-break-024-1500-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/environmental-education\/files\/2011\/03\/march-break-024-1500-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/environmental-education\/files\/2011\/03\/march-break-024-1500-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/environmental-education\/files\/2011\/03\/march-break-024-1500-165x248.jpg 165w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/environmental-education\/files\/2011\/03\/march-break-024-1500-945x1418.jpg 945w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/environmental-education\/files\/2011\/03\/march-break-024-1500-750x1125.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 682px) 100vw, 682px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Laurel Creek Outdoor Education Centre has surpassed last year&#8217;s maple syrup production already, and we have tanks of sap yet to boil. In a normal syrup season (March 1-April 10-ish).\u00a0we usually produce 150 litres of syrup.\u00a0Last year was our worst year ever with only 58 litres made.\u00a0 So far this spring we have made [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\" role=\"complementary\"><a href=\"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/environmental-education\/2011\/03\/21\/banner-start-to-maple-syrup-season\/\"><strong>Read more about<\/strong> <cite>Banner Start to Maple Syrup Season<\/cite> &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13968,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/environmental-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/environmental-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/environmental-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/environmental-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13968"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/environmental-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/environmental-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/environmental-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/environmental-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/environmental-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}