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Just lovely, Julie! Congratulations on completing this project and sharing it out into the world with all of us! ❤

Beautiful, Julie! Your voice is luminous and pure. Imagery is gorgeous. Arrangement is lush and vibrant.

So good! I love it!

Thank you for sharing this outstanding medley. Gorgeous!

Congratulations, Julie, to you and to all the contributors for your beautiful and inspirational creation! Thank you for sharing the beauty of your world and your artistic gifts! ❤

Simply beautiful and uplifting, /Thank you

What a great video Grandpa & Julie! 🌳🍁🥞🍁🌳

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Julie, I have watched this before, but always enjoy watching it again. Thank you for the tribute to "Grandpa Dan"! He SO loved coming up to Cumberland to do this. One of his favorite things to do every year.

Love this woman’s voice.

Great video. Thank you for sharing

Beautiful

This was so fun to watch. Cy was one of my catechism teachers. It was especially wonderful to see his daughter, Vicki, in the video. She was one of my classmates. Thank you so much for sharing!

This is a great video. Thank you for taking the time to put this together.

I'd love to be able to buy a bottle of this syrup.

Just wanted to let you know that I stopped by again today to watch my favorite video on RUclips. I share it as much as I can. "That's a Sandhill Crane." - Favorite part. Thanks Julie.

Always love coming back to this video i am ready for sap season 2022

Wow! thank you for sharing, you are amazing and I would buy one hundred times your old fashion making syrup over factory, thanks again and way to go : )

Very knowledgeable and I hope you have family following your footsteps to keep that great tradition alive.

I am back in the UK after living in the United States for most of my adult life. I spent the last 16 years in Maine… I’ve been hearing from friends that the sap is starting to run and I was feeling nostalgic. So nice to see this, he seems like such a very nice man.

Beautiful video

Hi Uncle Cy! It’s Chloe Yeager from California (Sharie’s daughter). hope everything’s going well :) was just doing a project for my ap environmental science class and i was having to talk about the production of an ingredient and it’s environmental impact and i used your syrup. hope we can come out and visit you guys soon when covid is over. love you!

great video, he is a great teacher! wealth of knowledge :)

Way too many taps per tree. 18 inch diameter for two taps. 11-12 inch one tap. Stresses the tree.

Best syrup I have ever had. Bless you

Ok, I'm ready to move to Cumberland, Wisconsin.

Great video thanks for taking the time... just bought into a farm site with a sap tree forest we call Manitoba Maple which traditionally produces nice syrup...hope to be at it in the spring....love that he gives it to his family... a wonderful passage about nourishment in an amazing book called the iching states: "If we wish to know what anyone is like, we have only to observe on whom he bestows his care and what sides of his own nature he cultivates"

My 3-year old daughter just spent the entire 19+ minutes on my lap fixated on both the videos and his voice. I am so thankful to have watched this, and that you took the time to share in your knowledge and passion. It truly was a beautiful experience! (From Stouffville, Ontario, Canada).

Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge about maple syrup. I will be sharing this with my second graders. Ms. Tracey

A really wonderful video. I learned a lot. I appreciate all the hard work that goes into making maple syrup. I wish I was a member of his family so I could try his delicious looking syrup ;).

I have mixed emotions about this...thrilled to find such a valuable lesson and able to enjoy such a lovely paused and proud instruction filled with family tradition. Yet, sad because men like this, who had more integrity and propriety in one thumbnail than what others have in their entire body may be an endangered specie. I hope not, but agreeable persons like him are slowly fading away. I was lucky to be well raised and found men like him who mentored and served as good examples. Nonetheless, 20 virtual minutes with this gentleman and I already discovered that I am at a loss for not being able to make his acquaintance. I hope his children and grandchildren live nearby. It would be dreadful to have a grandfather like this and not be able to rejoice in his society. Mr. Lepak is certainly a treasure and perhaps one of his heirs will capture the pride and joy he displays creating his masterpiece and perpetuate the family tradition. God has been good to him and rightly so, it is evident he deserves all the blessings.

Love this video. Would love to meet him.

Best vid on syrup hands down. I tap about 40 or so and love your setup. Mine is very rudement but I do have an auto feed which is beneficial as it doesn't stop the boil as it adds. Thanks my friend, really enjoyed your story telling and instructional guidance. You sound like a good guy, I hope you know our Father.

Appreciated indeed. Thankyou for letting me know you had posted it. Hoping this trying year isn’t affecting your enviable lifestyle too badly. Stay safe and well.

Old school teaching... lost ways; thank you for sharing

should the diatomacious earth be "food grade"? btw, spread that stuff on your lawn if you have a big ant problem! they destroy their skeleton.

Thanks for sharing this beautiful tradition with the rest of us. I certainly would love to meet these fine folks during the sapping season sometime.

Great video! I loved it! I especially liked you showing your grandfather's hand made tap. Do all the diatom shells get filtered out of the syrup? I know that diatom shells are in tooth paste. I also love that stove you have and your whole operation and your incredible knowledge about it. It's very special!

I could listen to this man speak for days...

Very well done video -- enjoyable to watch! (Note: I'm a relative newbie to it but you seem to be using more taps per tree than some of the experts recommend.)

I love the “old” setup and do notice a huge difference in flavour. Thank you for the video ❤️🌸

This man is amazing! I'm not really into making maple syrup, was only looking for a video explaining the process, but glad I found this one. Great video! Great knowledge! Glad this video was shared for all to see! Thanks!

I want more than anything to try some of this syrup! Thanks for sharing this sweet video.

The Amish here really get into this... I love it.. In fact, my grandfather helped do it in the mid 1930s...

#434 here lets go and grow our channels nice set up

I wonder how many people watch this video as their "how to" and end up grossly over tapping and killing their trees. This man is completely out to lunch in comparison to the do's and don't of tapping. Never have I seen double tapping where two holes are done above and below. But not only that, putting in far too many taps in total on trees nowhere near big enough. He has enough taps on some trees that wouldn't even be considered on a tree 6' wide... And his "boucing off with the hammer" may sound simple, he really doesn't prove anything. He's just going by general feel with his taps and then letting his hammer bounce off the tap like a drummer using his stick. This bounce effect can be purposely done with little hits, or hard hits... There's no feel for when the hammer really bounces off. You just need to use common sense, right size drill bit (with very straight pressure to not oval the hole) and not hammer excessively.

Mr. Lepak, this is the best, most detailed explanation of how maple syrup is made that I have ever seen in my brief 74 years.Thank you and good health going forward to you and yours.

Very enjoyable video. We need more people in the world like Mr. Lepak hard working enjoys nature and shares his wisdom and trade.