{"id":313,"date":"2012-03-26T01:24:41","date_gmt":"2012-03-26T01:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.mapleacres.com\/?p=313"},"modified":"2012-03-26T01:24:41","modified_gmt":"2012-03-26T01:24:41","slug":"ro-arrived","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/?p=313","title":{"rendered":"R\/O Arrived"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our equipment dealer arrived about 11:30 AM with the R\/O.\u00a0 Yeah!\u00a0 We can see it and touch it even though we can&#8217;t use it until next year.\u00a0 Its neat to have this.\u00a0 Its the start of a transformation of our maple syrup operations.\u00a0 Our current operations are 1950s\/1960s technologies.\u00a0 Buckets, spouts, visiting each tree to collect sap.\u00a0\u00a0 A low efficiency evaporator.\u00a0\u00a0 The quantity and quality of the syrup reflect the 50s and 60s and was good for that time.\u00a0 But newer technologies have come along that improve both the quantity and quality of maple syrup that can be made of even a small sugar bush.\u00a0 And reduce the manual labor.\u00a0 The R\/O was the one thing we could do that would have the biggest impact on the operations so we started there.\u00a0\u00a0 It will reduce firewood use.\u00a0 Decrease cooking time.\u00a0 Improve quality of the syrup because less cooking time means lighter grades of syrup.\u00a0 And as a bonus give us water to use.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>Over the coming years we hope to install a vacuum tubing system and upgrade the evaporator.\u00a0\u00a0 This will all take a few years to accomplish.\u00a0 But it has begun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our equipment dealer arrived about 11:30 AM with the R\/O.\u00a0 Yeah!\u00a0 We can see it and touch it even though we can&#8217;t use it until next year.\u00a0 Its neat to have this.\u00a0 Its the start of a transformation of our maple syrup operations.\u00a0 Our current operations are 1950s\/1960s technologies.\u00a0 Buckets, spouts, visiting each tree to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2012-season-95"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}