{"id":155,"date":"2008-02-05T18:14:58","date_gmt":"2008-02-05T18:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp_genova\/?p=155"},"modified":"2008-02-05T18:14:58","modified_gmt":"2008-02-05T18:14:58","slug":"food-for-though-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/food-for-though-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Food For Thought &#8211; Big Leaf Maple Syrup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/images\/2008\/02\/05\/img_6497.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Img_6497\" title=\"Img_6497\" src=\"\/images\/2008-small\/02\/05\/img_6497.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; float: left;\" \/><\/a>This week on Food For Thought, a taste of Big Leaf Maple Syrup,&nbsp; produced mainly on Vancouver Island.&nbsp; Here is an mp3 <a href=\"\/files\/fft-feb06-08.mp3\">audio file<\/a>  for your listening pleasure.&nbsp; Here is an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.farmwest.com\/index.cfm?method=pages.showPage&amp;pageid=513\">article<\/a> explaining some of the research being done in this area. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/images\/2008\/02\/08\/img_6502.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Img_6502\" title=\"Img_6502\" src=\"\/images\/2008-small\/02\/08\/img_6502.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; float: left;\" \/><\/a> The first ever Big Leaf Maple Syrup Festival held near Duncan was a roaring success.&nbsp; I got to try 15 different locally-produced syrups, and there were some real standouts, including the winner from Lawrence Lampson of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.glenorafarm.com\/\">Glenora Farms<\/a>.&nbsp; He sold out of everything he had brought to the festival, but you might want to check to see if he has any more for sale.&nbsp; At left you can see one of the &#8216;Sapsuckers&#8217;, the local maple syrup producers&#8217; club, pouring sap into an evaporator.&nbsp; Depending on the sugar content of the sap, it may take up to 70 litres of sap to create one litre of syrup.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/images\/2008\/02\/08\/img_6504.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Img_6504\" title=\"Img_6504\" src=\"\/images\/2008-small\/02\/08\/img_6504.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; float: left;\" \/><\/a> Here is Paul Minvielle of Saltspring Island showing people how to tap maple trees to collect the sap.&nbsp; If you are interested you can find supplies and more information at <a href=\"http:\/\/atkinsonmaple.com\/\">Atkinson Maple Syrup Supplies<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week on Food For Thought, a taste of Big Leaf Maple Syrup,&nbsp; produced mainly on Vancouver Island.&nbsp; Here is an mp3 audio file for your listening pleasure.&nbsp; Here is an article explaining some of the research being done in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/food-for-though-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-for-thought"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}