No One Will Do This - But Off Gridders, Homesteaders, Preppers, and the Self-Reliant SHOULD.
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- Опубліковано 21 сер 2024
- Every year we learn more skills to help us live a more Self-Sufficient Life. We have a long way to go, but this is one thing all off gridders and homesteaders should do! Becoming more self reliant in our Off Grid Homesteading life.
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Nice haul of syrup. We got just about a gallon or so in Eastern Ontario this year. Tapped 5 trees with 2 taps each. We have a few very large maples. It was not a great year. But we are happy with what we were able to collect. Nothing better than processing your own food. On with gardening! Much love from Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦 ❤❤❤❤
Woot woot
Looks incredible! YUMM!!! ❤ So much work, but worth the wait. Love the hair Jen!! Too cute!!
Thanks so much! 😊
I'll make the pancakes you mail the surp.God that makes my mouth water.😅
Yum yum
Tie a ribbon or something on the trees like a rating system.. and see if the same trees have better or less as good years.
Wow 1 st Time iv ever seen the Natural way of making Syrup 👍👌✌️🤞🙏🙌🇺🇸🌻🌞
Hope you enjoy
Lol! The look on your face after sipping the "almost maple syrup" in your coffee is great. Jason says you need that on a t-shirt! 😂
Ha.....I might have to pay people to wear them though, ha ha
@@OffgridwithJayandJen 🤣
These pup love to Horse around 👍🤩😅
Wind up on the hill. Look into vertical axis wind turbine. Will charge as long as there is wind. Even while you sleep at night. Love the channel guys .
I was thinking about that too seeing Jens hair whipping around 😁😁😁
Hard to believe but this is the first time I ever watched this process. Looks like a fun tradition and also looks like a good amount of work and dedication. Thanks for the detailed demonstration, I definitely learned something.
So glad you enjoy it 😊
I'm so glad to be able to watch your channel. I miss home and all these things. Hope to snag a bottle! My 7 yro was watching your video with me, and I said, "Do you know what they are making?" When he saw you tap the trees. He got excited and said their making PANCAKES!!😂
That is awesome! Love it
So smart to preheat the sap!😍🇨🇦
Caught my attention but I'm swamped at work. Lol. We will both watch later! 😁✌️
Are the trees better for sap when they are younger or older? Love the new hairdo Jen!
Bigger the better
Thank you Jay and Jen 👊🏻👍🏻 God Bless 🙏🏻 Appreciate you 🫶
Thank you and appreciate you very much for being here
Gosh I'm amazed,love it.
This is kinda like we do cane.
Do you boil the cane in water then boil it down
Yes it's takes a while it has been quite a few years now. We lost the our plants because of a ice storm. We replanted last year so we should have some this fall. We have all the things you need for cutting grinding and a cooking vat.
We grow blackberries, blueberries, scuppenong.
Thanks fkr showing us. VERY INTERESTING and a true labor of love. I'd love to buy some when available❤
love watching you make the syrup. it is not work when you enjoy your hobby.
So true!
Wow..poor Jen..Great work you two.. Looks delicious!!!
Nice haul !!!
Thank you! 🤗
So Cool😊
Love your videos and enjoy watching them. May the lord bless and protect you and Jen and doing maple syrup. I live on ssi and sure would love some for my husband on ssi also.
Let us know
very satisfying start to finish. A labour of love.
For sure 👍
I don't how you feel about it, but I think putting the sugar shack in the lean-to turned out to be genius.
I love it.....being outside but shielded a little is awesome. The views are good too 😊
I used to love maple sugaring. My grandfather made syrup on a commercial scale. I was only able to help for a few years. Later I tapped the maple in my yard and got some impressive yields. I no longer have access to trees. I want to take some vacation time and visit my off grid property to make syrup.
You two are living, love it!
Woot woot
You guys put that self- reliant ego guy to shame! Another great and real video, thanks!
Glad you enjoyed it
Greetings from Germany. Andi
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Loved this.
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CHEERS YOUR BEST TIME OF THE YEAR
Agree I love it
Wow your way of tapping trees makes so much more sense. I have not seen this method before.
I like it too.....it gives the whole process a bit more flexibility 😊
You guys do some cool stuff in your videos, makes me smile 🙂
Happy to hear that!
I wanna be you guys when I grow up. I now have a new aspiration in life, sugaring!
I've done this with sugarcane! My cousin uses old sack cloth. Then when he's done, he cleans them up for the next year. I seen this maple syrup done on a Maine channel, their vat was bigger on the sides by about 10-12 inches deep and just as long as yours. The fire box was about the same, but they had 4 guys taking turns to keep it going. I would have to draw what my Cousins looked like!! The firewood part was made out of firebrick and regular brick. Sounded like a Jet Engine was running beside you. You had to wear plugs(hearing protection)!!! And the table with the sides and 4 different chambers was about 5ft wide by 8ft long! We made a ton of syrup that day!!!
It is really fun
@@OffgridwithJayandJen And Taste Awesome!! Store bought don't even compare!!
At 8:28 there is a bird sound it is a Downy Woodpecker ... a software on my apple phone identified it. It is so neat to do this ... never grow tired of it .. it is a great blessing...
I have waited all year for this video! We absolutely love it. I can’t wait to see what is the total amount of gallons you come up with. We upgraded to a vacuum filtration system this year, it’s been a real blessing. You guys knocked it out of the park this year, Job well done.
Thanks buddy.....you will have to let me know all about the RO and filter you use. I have considered doing both.....but like to hear details from from people I know before I try something.
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Love the hair, looks good. Maple syrup 🍁 😋 yum.
Thank you 😋
Wednesday I was watching a video on Working Horses with Jim and he went to visit a friend in Vermont George was talking about he makes maple syrup. Interesting when he talked about different temperatures which you get the most syrup.
It is a fun and satisfying process
thanks for sharing!
Sure thing!
Feel like I just got through a radio station long time listener first time caller love you guys saying HI from northern Ontario keeps up the good work trying to get you to 100 000 subscribers you GUYS keep it real as always
Woot woot......thank you Tom for all the love and support ❤️
Thank you!! I have wanted to try this on our 1 acre of maples.
I think I would start by taking an empty bucket to replace the first one, and continue rotating the empty ones to save a trip back to each tree.
That syrup looks amazing guys!! Nice work.
Thank you 😋
Nice trick with the hair dryer! We used a leaf blower. Lol
Whatever works 😊
Hard to find maple trees in New York City. Lol. Great job guys.
Tons of sugar maples in Central Park. Don't get caught. Lol
😊 true
@@SueLewisBuffalo for sure.
Very fun to do alot of work but worth it. ❤
Looks yummy. Awesome job to you both😊
Surprised that you said to the dogs…” don’t spill my “soda”?!??? In Michigan it’s pop! Am I right guys?? 😊
Most say pop yes.......I just kinda picked up saying sods from a friend. Also use eh like our neighbors from Canada.
I’ve been saying Eh my entire life!! I’ve lived in different parts of the country and people often thought I was Canadian…🤷🏼♀️
Thank you all
That looks great!!!! Nice job!!!
Thanks KG
Just a thought on speeding up your process, if you could band a thin layer of firebricks around the tray it would keep the heat central and where it’s needed. Thank you for your content 👍
Woot Woot doing a great job
Jay and Jen😊
Ginger L USA ALABAMA 🤠
Woot woot 😊
Lots of hard work and labor of love ... I wish I could get one but i'll never win. I am very low income and lost my auto repair business due to a car crash and injuries ... august I turn 71 ... truth ...
Oh no buddy......stay strong my friend
Awesome video. I have been waiting for this one!!!
Woot woot my friend
Looks like you’re having a pretty good year for sap collection. I’ll be patiently waiting for the maple syrup sale.
Going good so far
I live in Texas. I would love to experience maple syrup making. I would like a quart. That last one out of the batch would wonderful. I’ve made Cain syrup with family in east Texas. Love your channel. God Bless Y’all!
😍🙌 Yummy, enjoy the fruits of your labour!
make me want pancakes 🥞😋
You need to look into fostering a couple young boys. You could make such a difference in their lives :) We adopted 3 and they definitely make things interesting lol besides you would be a great dad !! we need more dads like you
Jerry.....thank you for this comment. Jen and I told ourselves if we didn't have kids and regretted it when we turned 40 we would consider fostering or adopting. I'm unsure if we would qualify by the standards of the agencies that look over the children, as we live differently than most. But we would love to share our love and lives with some who needed it and make a difference. I really appreciate your kind words about me being a good dad, it means a lot to me. 😊
Yum!! Looks good! Thanks for sharing.
That's so cool to be able to do this
Loved to start to finish video. Looks yummy!!!
A Lot of work but great rewards .
It sure is
Awesome syrup video! Love all your videos ❤
Wow Jen looks nice in the blue shirt!
I think so too 😊
I love watching ur maple syrup videos... keep it up
So glad you do.....I enjoy making them
Hey Jay and Jen, as i said to u last year or the year befor, u need to build a sugar shack, set it up with a bench or two with some throw cushions, but big enough to sleep on if u have to stoke the fire all night... little side table for ur as u call it "soda", we call it pop", or a beer/ coffee/ tea, what ever the beverage, plenty of lights and windows, or just a few big ones, it will get better each year as u go, anyway, Great Job to Both of U!! job well done!!! c ya next time!!👏😊
I'm definitely going to build one.....hopefully this year
Consider this me placing my order
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Amazing Video
Thanks ❤️
My pleasure 😊
I love your new haircut. I wish my hair was curly like that. I seen it your last video but I wasn’t sure so I didn’t say anything, but it really looks nice.❤❤
Awe...thank you 😊
I love homemade maple surp 😂
Tqvm for sharing the process of doing maple syrup.. Appreciate it. Sending love n respect from Malaysia❤❤
My pleasure 😊
This was very interesting I had no clue how maple syrup was produced.im English but retired to Turkey we don't have maple syrup as the climate is not suitable for maples.amazing how much sap is collected per tree and how the tree heals itself
It is 😀👍
Great video guys !!! Can't wait to give this a try, hopefully next season.
You won't regret it
I think i would use some hardwood for overnight fires.
I can see some yummy pancakes in your future!
What’s in the orchard? Apples? Pears?
How cool that the trees are healing up already from the last couple of years. We tried to plant some maple but they all died. The moose ate one and the rest just hated the winter I think haha
Loved the music in this video!
Hey guys, yes there are a variety of apples and pear. None of which are growing very well, not all dying.....but not flourishing like I had hoped. Too bad about the maples......but hey, I would trade all my maples for a property on the water like you all have. 😊
I’m going to try making some maple syrup next year! I love watching y’all make syrup! Thanks for sharing!
Do it buddy....you will get hooked
Cool nice work sir 😊
Thank you my friend 😊
Yum.
Cool. a camera lens in the cutting board 🙂
Lol
Jay and Jenn that maple syrup looks so good 💯 I would love to buy some for my pancakes and to support your UA-cam channel ❤️
You are on thr list my friend.......hope to have some processed into smaller jars in the next couple weeks . 😀
PS....thank you for my lucky coins.....I'll put them somewhere cool and safe
@@OffgridwithJayandJen you are very welcome 😁 I've been doing that my entire life for good luck, it's a family tradition 🥦
what an interesting watch and quite the process, Now I can see why it is so expensive to buy real Maple syrup in stores or at the market. Nothing like real Maple syrup loved this thanks folks great work . London Ontario Canada Yummmm., I am interested but i am unfortunately here in Ontario. Look forward as always to the next video.
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2:15 Jen's hair, the flag, and trees blowing wildly around from the strong wind. Jay: what wind.
Ya it was crazy that day....we actually talked and filmed all the details to the tapping process....but the audio was ruined so I made it into a musical intro, lol
@@OffgridwithJayandJen Well, Iespecially enjoyed watching this one. Had zero idea how sap was harvested. Never knew so much would collect in a bucket, never knew how water-like it looks in its raw state. Thank you!
I have that same hammer.
😊 it hammers like a hammer, lol
I think i would use some hardwood for overnight fires.
I’m making some birch syrup here in Alaska I’d love to have some of yours though, if you sell I would love to purchase I’ll even send you some Birch if you want some, your Alaskan friend God Bless you two
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Loved this vid! So enjoyed it… would love to buy some! Link the connect to purchase!
I don’t eat maple syrup because I’m sweet enough
We kinda figured that was true buddy. Love it 😀
"Wucha doin?" Jay, "Oh just sittin and watchin the sap boil."
Yup, lol
Sorry just saying, put a hand rail on those steps, slippy as-- better not break anything 👍
Jay, great video. I'm sorry if I came off as abrasive in your last video. Did you find the trees on the back side of your barn produced more sap? If so maybe because there roots are more exposed to the cold nights and warm days? Also did you ever consider taping trees that are easier to acess with your mule?
We use to make maple syrup with just 1gal jugs on the trees and clean/new 32gal trash cans for storage. We would wait until the storage was full and a warm day coming then that morning fire up and boil for about 16hrs.
You are all good my friend.....I have thinner skin than I should....especially for someone posting their life on YT....but I do honestly appreciate some tough love once and a while. Honestly I have been having trouble getting motivated to work on some projects.....but it is just ups and downs like all things in life.
The trees behind the barn didn't produce very well three years ago, so I didn't tap them last year ...but this year I wanted more taps and these trees are good size, so I did, and they did very well. We actually went down to the main driveway to our property and tapped 5 big trees down there this year. They all produced very good as well. I'm excited to do even more next year.
Maybe learn to raise a half dozen bee hives ...
Jay, what do you do at nighttime for the boiling off? Showing my ignorance here - hope you don’t have to tend to this all night. 😍🇨🇦 Okay - asked too soon!
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I see that Jen got a haircut
I’m back y’all I just got outta Prison or was it the mental institution ? 😂🤣
Man I’ve missed a lot of y'all's videos.
I’m just kidding I’ve not been to prison or A mental institution. 😂 But as long as it’s been since UA-cam has sent me a notification for any of your videos I could’ve done a year stretch in either one of those places. Actually they didn’t send me a notification for this video I just ran across it on my own. I think some of the turd blossoms at YT headquarters needs to be let go of their duties for not running a better platform than they do !
The turd blossoms had unsubscribed me from your channel without my permission to do so.
Actually I just went back and checked and it was over 6 months since I had watched a video of yours not a year but 6-7 months is still too long not getting any notifications from UA-cam. Also they shouldn’t be allowed to unsubscribe people from channels either!!! 🤨
Ha.......well we are glad to have you back with us, woot woot. 😀
It has been a while since we have heard people saying they had been unsubscribed......but.....if they get unsubbed, then they may never notice and we never know about it either. I do know that we see a good amount of subs drop off a couple times a year for some reason
Hey jay why don’t you use a 45 gallon drum that is what my friend used to do his Maple syrup
I was trying to find a food grade barrel 30-50 gallons, but couldn't find a good deal on one
Here in Ontario Canada we have 55 gallon steel drums for $ 20.00 each on marketplace in Caledon Ontario
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Syrup time again 😮
Oh ya
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Did you ever notice how sticky your eyelashes get when you have had your head in the steam from the boiling sap?? I remember that from a kid when my dad boiled syrup.
Ha...very neat memory my friend
Hey Jay, how do we purchase to support?
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