32,000 gallons of maple sap, which run through these tubes to here, where they re cooked down to about 800 gallons of syrup, which is more or less what they use per season here. nothing leaves the property. and it makes sense while you re here to raise hogs and cattle on the property. and maybe keep a cabin or two around for any friends who get too loaded to sleep it off. but this? this? is there really any reason for this? what are you doing here? why do you have to make life so hard? if money were your primary motivation no. this doesn t seem like the fastest road to untold wealth. my friend s father had a sugar shack. everybody had one. you can go back, you know, three generation, they had a sugar shack. and i m very proud of quebec. i m very proud of canada, you know?
a sucre, or sugar shack, is as old as maple syrup here in quebec, where 70% of the world s supply comes from. deeply embedded in the maple syrup outdoor lumberjack lifestyle is the cabin in the woods, where maple sap is collected and boiled down to syrup. over time many of these cabins became informal eating houses, dining halls for workers and a few guests, where a lucky few could sit at communal tables and enjoy the bounty of the trees and forests around them. martin picard has taken this tradition to what is somehow both its logical conclusion and insane extreme, creating his own cabane a sucre, only open during maple season and serving food stemming directly from the humble yet hearty roots. it makes perfect sense in one way. i mean, 130 acres produce about
old as maple syrup here in quebec, where 70% of the world s supply comes from. deeply embedded in the maple syrup outdoor lumberjack lifestyle is the cabin in the woods, where maple sap is collected and boiled down to syrup. over time many of these cabins became informal eating houses, dining halls for workers and a few guests, where a lucky few could sit at communal tables and enjoy the bounty of the trees and forests around them. martin picard has taken this tradition to what is somehow both its logical conclusion and insane extreme, creating his own cabane a sucre, only open during maple season and serving food stemming directly from the humble yet hearty roots. it makes perfect sense in one way. i mean, 130 acres produce about 32,000 gallons of maple sap, which run through these tubes to here, where they re cooked down
syrup outdoor lumberjack lifestyle is the cabin in the woods, where maple sap is collected and boiled down to syrup. over time many of these cabins became informal eating houses, dining halls for workers and a few guests, where a lucky few could sit at communal tables and enjoy the bounty of the trees and forests around them. martin picard has taken this tradition to what is somehow both its logical conclusion and insane extreme, creating his own cabane a sucre, only open during maple season and serving food stemming directly from the humble yet hearty roots. it makes perfect sense in one way. i mean, 130 acres produce about 32,000 gallons of maple sap, which run through these tubes to here, where they re cooked down to about 800 gallons of syrup, which is more or less what they use per season here.
the tradition of the cabane a sucre au pied de cochon or sugar shack is as old as quebec, and maple syrup, for 70% of the world s supply comes from here. deeply embedded in the maple syrup outdoor lumberjack lifestyle is the cabin in the woods, where maple sap is collected and boiled down to syrup. over time, many of these cabins became informal eating houses, dining halls for workers and a few guests, where a lucky few could sit at communal tables and enjoy the bounty of the trees and forests around them. martin picard has taken this tradition to somehow what is both its logical conclusion and insane extreme, creating his own cabane a sucre, only open during maple