Monthly Archives: February 2015

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Maple Sugaring: Tapping our Trees

By Aaron Lefland, Forestry and Stewardship Coordinator For decades, Land’s Sake has been continuing the New England tradition of turning the sweet sap of Sugar Maples into delicious maple syrup. Each year, we tap hundreds of trees, collect thousands of gallons of sap, and boil the sap in our evaporator to […]

Forestry: Management Objectives

By Aaron Lefland, Forestry and Stewardship Coordinator During the cold winter months, our forestry team heads into the woods to continue Weston’s ongoing forest stand improvement project. Since the early 1980s, Land’s Sake has worked with the Weston Conservation Commission to rotationally manage parcels of town forest. As part of […]