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Did I mention ice cream? This sure beats all that crank, crank, cranking, doesn't it?
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We visited a Birch Syrup farm where they tap in the spring, much like the maple tree,
but a less sweet result. It takes 110 gallons of birch sap to make one gallon of syrup,
compared to 40 gallons of maple sap to make one gallon of syrup.
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This is the fancy machine that converts that sap into about 16 ounces of syrup per tree.
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Harvest was 21 days in the spring, but this is how it looked.
Did you know that Alaska has 3,000,000 lakes?
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