<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>From: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Joshua Dolan <<a href="mailto:sapsquatch7@gmail.com">sapsquatch7@gmail.com</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Date: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">February 18, 2013 2:48:17 PM EST</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Maple Sugaring season has started & Sapsquatch CSA shares are now on sale</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> </div><div dir="ltr"><p class="">Hello Sapsquatch supporters!</p><p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">We are up and running for our earliest maple sugaring season ever.<span style=""> </span>Our first boil last year was February 2<sup>nd</sup>.<span style=""> </span>This year’s was January 30<sup>th</sup>!<span style=""> </span>All signs are pointing to a pretty good season this year.<span style=""> </span>The weather has been cold and wet, so there should be some significant sap running over the next several weeks.<span style=""> </span>If you are thinking about tapping yourself and haven’t done so yet, now is a good time. <span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span>Here is an excerpt from my latest blog post.<span style=""> </span>You can click on the title if you want to read the full article:</p><div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue'"><a href="http://sapsquatchsyrup.wordpress.com/2013/02/17/another-early-season-maple-sugaring-climate-uncertainty/"><b><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">Another early season maple sugaring & climate uncertainty</span></b></a><span style=""> </span></span><b><span style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue'"></span></b></p><p class="" style="margin-bottom:24pt"><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(38,38,38)">“2012 was a year of extreme weather, and the balmy winter was just the opening act. Our first boil was on Groundhog Day, almost a month earlier than ever before. Many sugarmakers waited to see how things would turn out, but their hopes were dashed on March 17th when an unseasonable heat wave ended the season abruptly, causing the sap flow to stop and forcing most commercial tree crops to bloom way to early. Many sugarmakers reported 50% lower yields, but orchardists were devastated when the early blooms were killed by frost, hail and late snow all in succession.”</span></p><p class="">We will be boiling regularly between now and the end of the season, and I like to post on Facebook when we are out at the shack.<span style=""> </span>Friends and newcomers are always welcome.<span style=""> </span>Please contact Josh for more info or to schedule a private tour (free for CSA member’s, $10/group) at <a href="mailto:sapsquatch7@gmail.com">sapsquatch7@gmail.com</a>.<span style=""> </span>Below is a rundown of upcoming events you should know about:</p><div> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class=""><span style=""> </span><b style="">CSA sales start February 11</b> – For the past few years, Sapsquatch has been growing our business, and our CSA is a way to help us out at the beginning of the season and reserve your gallon.<span style=""> </span>For $80, you get 1 gallon of your favorite grade in a gallon jug or 4 quarts.<span style=""> </span>For an additional $20 we can ship OR put your gallon and a grade sampler in container sizes of your choosing (for pick up only).<span style=""> </span>Place your order via email at <a href="mailto:sapquatch7@gmail.com">sapquatch7@gmail.com</a> or by phone at (607)280-8498.</p><p class=""><span style=""> </span><b style="">Enfield Sugarmakers Club</b> – This year we are teaming up with Enfield’s afterschool for an 8 week maple sugar program.<span style=""> </span>Every Thursday starting February 7<sup>th</sup>, middle school kids will learn the ropes, tap trees, sled wood and sap to the sugarshack and see a boil in progress.<span style=""> </span>At the end of the season, they will also learn to identify native plants as they emerge from the freshly thawed soil.<span style=""> </span>New Roots Farm-to-School club and GIAC Conservation Corps are also tentatively scheduled for regular programming at the sugarbush.</p><p class=""><span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span><b style="">Brooklyn High School Service Learning trip </b>– on March 6<sup>th</sup>, 15-16 high-schoolers from Brooklyn will visit the sugarbush, help get the fire started, try their hand at chopping wood, and begin construction on a new bridge over Sapsquatch Creek.<span style=""> </span>The will also visit several area farms, universities and other educational attractions over course of the week.</p><p class=""><span style=""> </span><b style="">NY Maple Weekends</b> – Sapsquatch will host an open house on the last two weekends of March, 23-24 and 30-31 from 12pm-5pm.<span style=""> </span>Swing by and pick up your syrup, see the evaporator in action (depending on the weather) and take a walk in our 25 acre sugarbush.<span style=""> </span>Check Facebook for evening activities <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Sapsquatch-pure-maple-syrup/41901318258?fref=ts">https://www.facebook.com/pages/Sapsquatch-pure-maple-syrup/41901318258?fref=ts</a><span style=""> </span>We will also be selling syrup at the Cayuga Nature Center’s annual open house and pancake breakfast on March 23 and 24.</p><div> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="">Thanks,</p><p class="">Josh Dolan</p><p class="">Founder and Head sugarmaker, Sapsquatch Pure Maple Syrup</p><p class=""><a href="http://www.sapsquatchsyrup.wordpress.com">www.sapsquatchsyrup.wordpress.com</a></p><div> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div> </div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>