On Thursday, we walked from the farm (at the top of the hill) all the way down to the bottom of the hill where the sugaring shack is. The reason why the sugaring shack is at the bottom of the hill is because the farmers use gravity to help get all of the sap from the Maple trees (through plastic tubing) into the sugaring basin. There, the sap is boiled until it reaches the temperature of 7 degrees higher than water's boiling point.
After seeing what happens to the sap, we walked back to the main farm area through a sugar bush. A sugar bush is what you call a big forest area of Maple trees that produce sap that's used to make maple syrup.
Some parts were snowy, and some parts were even muddy....
... and even though we got a bit muddy, it was incredibly beautiful.
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