It seems the most difficult part of any job is the initial momentum to get started. You can research yourself to death without any motion but that is futile. We have a plethora of sugar maples, want to supplement the farm income, so what’s the holdup? Do we use buckets or tubes, big taps or little taps, commercial evaporator or home brew?  This reasoning can go on and on. Joel Salatin says “if it’s worth doing, it’s worth doing poorly, first.” The fact is, we don’t do anything well at first.