The sugar shack at Flying Mouse Farms in Yellow Springs on a cool March morning.
During the early spring, maple sap dripping into a bucket is a comforting, familiar sound to Michele Burns. Michele and her husband John have been making maple syrup at Flying Mouse Farms in Yellow Springs since 2007. Usually they hold an open house every spring where visitors can tour the operation, but it was cancelled this year due to the pandemic.
Chris Welter Two different ways of collecting sap from sugar maple trees at Flying Mouse Farms in Yellow Springs.
Michele, John and their staff tap hundreds of sugar maple trees around Yellow Springs. Once the buckets are full, the sap is transported in big plastic containers on the back of a pick-up truck to a small building on the farm. It’s called the sugar shack.