Sugar Shack

A winter specialty at Codman Farm is the Maple Syrup. Every winter we tap trees and collect sap to make maple syrup. It takes 40 gallons of sap to make 1 gallon of maple syrup. All through the winter we are going to be boiling sap in a cauldron in a little shack that was built last summer right on the Codman Farm property. We fill all the walls with fire wood for insulation, but as we use up the fire wood in the walls for the fire, we have to go out into the cold and cut more. When we are in the Sugar Shack on the other hand, we are warm and toasty.