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Speaker 1: A beloved sound of spring is in the air. Maple

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Speaker 1: tapping season is upon us. These next six or so

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Speaker 1: weeks are a fever of activity, the tiny slice of

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Speaker 1: the calendar when maple trees produce buckets of sap freezing

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Speaker 1: nights in slightly warmer days or what makes it happen,

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Speaker 1: And it's.

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Speaker 2: A temperature difference that causes the sap to move from

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Speaker 2: the roots all the way up into the trees to

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Speaker 2: get the tree ready for leaf production for the year.

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Speaker 1: Casey Town's in the Nitti Community Organic Farm, assuring me

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Speaker 1: their operation, which is run off of six hundred old

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Speaker 1: fashioned taps and buckets. The sap is boiled down for

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Speaker 1: hours after collection to make serup.

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Speaker 2: And so on any given day when it is running,

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Speaker 2: we are also running in the sense that we're running

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Speaker 2: from one site to another to make sure that these

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Speaker 2: buckets aren't overflowing.

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Speaker 1: Casey says, maple season is an absolute gauntlet, but a

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Speaker 1: jump starts the farming year.

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Speaker 2: Right now is kind of the trifecta for us of

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Speaker 2: animals berthing seedlings getting started and at the same time

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Speaker 2: sap running.

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Speaker 1: Kyle Shaffle WZ Boston's news radio