Harvesting Sap From Alaskan Birch Trees
2023 ж. 19 Мам.
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We harvested birch sap from trees on our property to condense into syrup.
Thank you for watching!
Katie & Chris
We harvested birch sap from trees on our property to condense into syrup.
Thank you for watching!
Katie & Chris
Ok I’m on this video!! Love it. Just finished watching the video for the driveway love it.
Woohoo! ❤️ Glad you love it!
Glad to see you taking advantage of what nature has to offer on your property. Chris, the "Only Fans" joke was so timely.
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Jamaican me hungry with those eggs and pancakes with birch syrup. Yumlicious!
It was great! We should have made more. We ran out too fast!
Birch is an amazing and beautiful tree, it represents Venus, the bright morning star and the divine goddess of love. But more importantly it has so many medicinal and health benefits. Keep drinking that amazing nectar of the divine goddess of love.
We enjoyed it! Looking forward to the next harvest 🙂
We tap our Birch here in Eagle River, Wi. It definitely has a great taste right from the tap. But we like the Maple Syrup over the Birch Syrup. We just started watching your channel and looking forward to following you on your journey.
We are glad to have you! What type of birch do you have? Ours are paper birch, and I believe what we tapped was an Alaska Paper Birch (we also have Kenai paper birch). We do love real maple syrup, but this is so rich.
@@northtoalaska2022 The two most common here in our area are the White birch and the Silver Birch. Last year we cut some birch down to make more room for our ever growing garden before winter set in. The sap was still running and it had gotten below freezing one night and we had icicles hanging down from the stomps. So we brought them in the house to thaw out. We ended up with a gallon of great tasting sap. Better than water!
@robertbartmann8470 That's funny that the stumps produced so much sap after being cut! We thoroughly enjoyed the sap, although we do like it better as syrup. Maybe the type of birch makes a big difference in taste.
Human: Ah this looks like a good Tree to harvest sap. **drills in the tree** Tree: AAAAAAGGGGGGHH!
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Funny fact: birch sap is actively mined in Russia, but no one makes syrup. Either they drink it raw or make moonshine out of it.
That is interesting. Thanks for sharing , I am curious what the birch moon shine would taste like!
You have to boil down , like they make maple syrup....
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I would have never known to do that. Thank you for the video
Absolutely! We actually saw it on other videos, and we were curious as, in the past, we haven't lived in an area with trees worth tapping. So we did some research and decided to give it a try this year.😁
We just watched you cleaning up the property. We have done that several times and made a killing. Most people aren't willing to put in the work it takes. Good job on the cleanup 👍
Thank you! We found out that the owner passed away 20 years ago, and all of his belongings have been abandoned since then. The person that inherited it had supposedly never been to the property. It did stay on the market for quite some time, probably because most people would not want to deal with the old log cabin demolition and cleanup. But it worked out great for us because we purchased it for a low but fair offer price. We are very happy with how the property is turning out! It is going to make a great home for many years to come.
make moonshine ... we use corn but that works in that climate.
Good idea !
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We were pleasantly surprised at how the syrup tasted! It's our new favorite! 🥞
I've done this before. The problem with birch sap is it takes **so much** birch sap to make syrup. I think the average ratio is something like 100 gallons of birch sap to make 1 gallon of birch syrup. With maples the average ratio is like 40:1. Do you guys have any maples on your property? Making your own pure syrup is fun (same with producing your own pure, raw honey), but maple is the way to go, if you can.
It does take ALOT of sap. Unfortunately, there are zero maple trees in our area or nearby. We will give it another go next spring to attempt making a few more jars. The syrup really does have great flavor!
Makes me wana tap some trees back here in pennsyltucky
Ahhh good ol' pennsyltucky!
Hello find your channel today. It would be realy interesting to know how much money did you have to pay for all kinds of permits (urbanists mafia taxes) otherwise nice done and hard work. greetings
Hey 👋 thank you! In our part of alaska, we are not subject to permits, codes, or inspections. This is most but not all areas out of city limits in alaska. When building a home in kenai, you can apply for a tax exemption on all building materials. Our property tax here is about 200$ yearly, and there are no other yearly tax fees we have incurred. You do have to purchase water rights in alaska to drill a well or use water from your creek or spring. But it is a 100$ one-time fee for life. It is a really great state to avoid the urban mafia tax you mentioned. That is one of many reasons we live here. Hope this helps! ✌️
@@northtoalaska2022 thanks for kind answer . wish you all the best in future and by the way hope you dont need gun or rifle for bears protection. Greetings from Slovenia EU
Paper birch are my favorite northern trees. Can maple trees grow up that far, or do you make syrup out of birch sap?
No maple trees in our area, I don't believe they would survive. We did make syrup from the birch trees though, not quite as good as maple syrup. But it is great in its own way 🙂
why don't just boil it down and make syrup out of it?
We did 3:19