Maple

As I mentioned a few weeks ago, I'm going to start doing a series of videos and stories on farm life around the Ottawa Valley, and in particular my farmers Gord and Janet, who own and operate Saffire Farms, a beef farm and CSA. I got to know Gord about 9 years ago now when he showed up at our homebrew club's 1st Big Strange Brew event to learn how to make beer from grain. We've been good friends since then, and over that time I switched most of my farm business over to him. When I mentioned my video project a month or so ago, he was keen to have me do it. I told him to just keep me posted when there were any new "farm activities" going on, and I'd come out to film them.

Yesterday he emailed me and told me that the sap was running, and it was time to tap some trees this weekend. Normally I'd be keen to go out on a Saturday but we've got a huge weekend with a birthday party for one of our boys, and a visitor coming in from Alberta. So I called him back on the phone and asked if I could pop out at about 4pm. I leave work early on Fridays to pick the boys up at school, and so we could just jump in the van and head out to see him. He assured me that would be no problem at all, so that is what we did!