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Make Your Own Maple Syrup This Year – Part 3
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March 16, 2021March 16, 2021

Make Your Own Maple Syrup This Year – Part 3

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Maple syrup season is upon us! In parts 1 and 2 of this series we described how to prepare for the season, what equipment you’ll need, and how to tap your trees and begin boiling the sap. This post describes the finals stages of boiling and bottling maple syrup. At this stage you’ll have collected...

Beech Bark Disease: Beautiful But Deadly
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December 23, 2020February 16, 2021

Beech Bark Disease: Beautiful But Deadly

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Have you noticed a patchy-red fungus growing on the bark of American beech trees, or tiny white specks stuck to the bark? This is beech bark disease. To look at, it can be beautiful, but in our forests it is deadly. The white specks on the bark are the by-products (aka poop) of the beech...