{"id":928,"date":"2012-03-05T21:46:11","date_gmt":"2012-03-06T02:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/outdooredguys.wordpress.com\/?p=928"},"modified":"2012-03-05T21:46:11","modified_gmt":"2012-03-06T02:46:11","slug":"maple-syrup-first-boil-of-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/environmental-education\/2012\/03\/05\/maple-syrup-first-boil-of-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Maple Syrup &#8211; First Boil of 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We fired up the evaporator at the Camp Heidelberg Outdoor Education Centre today to start the maple syrup season.\u00a0 It was also our first day of classes, and it isn&#8217;t often that we have enough sap to boil this early in the season.\u00a0 The trees were tapped last week, we did collections of about 300-400 liters of sap on Thursday and again on Friday, and another 900 litres on Saturday.\u00a0 It takes about 8 hours of boiling to get the first batch of finished syrup, which we hope to complete tomorrow.\u00a0 Followed by a pancake breakfast, or some ice cream floating in syrup, or&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>You can see the evaporator in action in the video below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Untitled\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/37992007?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_930\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/outdooredguys.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/03\/syrup-bottles.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-930\" class=\"size-full wp-image-930\" title=\"syrup bottles\" src=\"http:\/\/outdooredguys.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/03\/syrup-bottles.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/environmental-education\/files\/2012\/03\/syrup-bottles.jpg 4000w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/environmental-education\/files\/2012\/03\/syrup-bottles-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/environmental-education\/files\/2012\/03\/syrup-bottles-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/environmental-education\/files\/2012\/03\/syrup-bottles-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/environmental-education\/files\/2012\/03\/syrup-bottles-165x110.jpg 165w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/environmental-education\/files\/2012\/03\/syrup-bottles-1140x762.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/environmental-education\/files\/2012\/03\/syrup-bottles-945x631.jpg 945w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/environmental-education\/files\/2012\/03\/syrup-bottles-750x501.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-930\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"> Samples of Light, Medium and Amber grade syrup from the 2011 season. Photo by Sydney Rasberry<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We fired up the evaporator at the Camp Heidelberg Outdoor Education Centre today to start the maple syrup season.\u00a0 It was also our first day of classes, and it isn&#8217;t often that we have enough sap to boil this early in the season.\u00a0 The trees were tapped last week, we did collections of about 300-400 [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\" role=\"complementary\"><a href=\"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/environmental-education\/2012\/03\/05\/maple-syrup-first-boil-of-2012\/\"><strong>Read more about<\/strong> <cite>Maple Syrup &#8211; First Boil of 2012<\/cite> &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13969,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/environmental-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928","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\/13969"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/environmental-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/environmental-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/environmental-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/environmental-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/environmental-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}