From our holler to your table! SouthDown Farm is Micro-farm in the hills of southeast Kentucky. We are southern sugar makers who are proudly making Kentucky maple syrup from the maple trees on our steep rugged eastern Kentucky forested hillside property. Join us in watching how we make maple syrup here in Kentucky. In the other three seasons we grow an amazing amount of vegetables in a very small area using intensive market gardening methods. We love to share what we are learning about raising food for our family and for the market. We have an on farm permitted commercial kitchen where we make value added products with our produce by baking and processing what we grow...think carrot cake scones, cucumber bread, Jalapeño Cheddar scones, Grape Jelly roasted garlic Roma tomato sauce and Jalapeño Salsa just to name a few. Everyday is a learning adventure for us on SouthDown, come learn with us! We invite you to look around our website SouthDownky.com to learn more.
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Where I live in the south west, Scrapple doesn't exist! : ( It was my favorite breakfast food when I lived on the east coast!
I live in Washington state and we are a Habbersett family... my grandparents lived in Lancaster, PA.
How big was the base?
7’x8’
Good stuff
Such a shame. Kolbs Meats closed soon after this was filmed. I always got my hams there. As for store bought scrapple, I prefer Hatfields...I find habbersets can be too livery for me.
Scrapple needs PEPPER
Scrapple better than bacon.
What do we call that process taking place
Plucking
We sale this Landscape/garden fabric with holes
Who is we?
This is a great video! Thanks for sharing.
proud to live
I grew up in NJ but moved to Texas. When I visit home I always get my fill of scrapple. We have a Hispanic version here called pannas but it’s not seasoned well & is mostly cornmeal
Check it out! You guys were featured on a recent Get To The Farm Bonus shout out vid!
Thanks but that Southdown in the video is not us…
It’s a two hole strap. Not a conduit connector. Thanks to this VIDEO I get to make two of these. Thanks for NOTHING. My wife is the chicken person. I am the builder for all of these things!!! Seriously thank you for explaining it so I can even understand it. Btw…I’m an electrician! Lol
Then for you it is truly a labor of love 🤣 thanks!
@@southdownfarm6323 no I hate this type of work. I just not wealthy enough to hire others to support my laziness.
What do you feed your meat chickens to get them that big
We feed them 18% chick starter their whole short life. The large size of the chickens is because of the breed, these are XRock chickens.
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The video is nice but not very helpful for someone like myself or others who have the drop flue pans. There is absolutely nothing on the internet that goes into details of the boiling down process of the sap stuck in those flues. Does it get wasted, boiled off? How does the sap in those flues get boiled off without burning or scorching the pan? I bought this type of evaporator this year from the flat pan and burned the first batch yesterday and trying so hard to google anything that will answer those question and have had no success.
Sorry, I only have experience with a raised flue pan set up.
I have a Smoky Lake 2x4 hobby pro with drop flue. The boil agitates the sap which keeps it suspended and moving into the syrup pan. We have made over 300 gals on that rig.
@@systemsofcounseling That is fantastic! What part of the country do you live in?
How do you all go about cleaning your pans? And how often?
Normally clean them at the end of the season. At the end of the season I will let the sweet sit in the pans fermenting. This process creates a vinegar like acid that cleans up the pans. The pans will then be taken off the arch and the fire side 3:28 pressure washed in the off season.
Just A little Ketchup!!
Did you ever have your evaporator all freeze up do to cold?
Yes, often but it does not harm the evaporator.
@@southdownfarm6323 thanks I was just worried that maybe the freeze may crack a part of the flu pan,but I fired it up today and it seems fine.
The wash bucket… is that for mixing preservative for your RO between runs?
After each ro use we do a rinse-wash-rinse cycle. It’s for the wash cycle where we recirculate the ro soap to clean the membranes.
@@southdownfarm6323 thanks for the reply! Definitely will be looking more into depth on the process. Last year I didn’t wash between runs and the filters got funky. I believe I did clean them somehow and they were fine luckily.
There is me the little kid in the back
Hi Caitlin :)
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Love this! You have an amazingly delicious operation going on! 😊 Glad I found you, new subscriber from Ontario 🇨🇦🍁💖🦋
Welcome to the world of sugaring in the south! If interested, check out our FB page too.
Fantastic thank you
Our pleasure!
Great video thanks. I’m building mine this year. So what type of insulation did you put before the metal roofing to keep down the condensation? Thanks
Used a white/foil radiant barrier that is commonly used for metal roof installations. It’s like bubble wrap and about a quarter inch thick. I purchased it locally from a metal roof supplier.
Silver side down also reflects light nicely.
my chicken wont stop moving though. why is yours so behaved?
Might want to give it a go through the cone first. 😅
Bahahaha!😂😂😂😅
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Williamsport, PA native, living in southern California and I love scrapple!
We spend time in the Little Pine Creek valley North of Williamsport each year…
How do you attach the insulation to the evaporator?
Good question…The insulation is fairly stiff, cut it a smidgen large then tuck it in and it will stay in place on its own.
Thanks so much!
Love it!
I purchased the same unit, ‘this will be my first year they thought I should get sight glasses for both float boxes so I did not sure I understand everything. Do you rely on sight glasses?
For me the sight glasses serve as an at a glance quick look to make sure things are at the right level.
@@southdownfarm6323 thanks. Now that I put in my first year of boiling I understand things much better,except one thing. When it’s the last boil and you have both pans with concentrated sap, other than dumping it or putting into a turkey fry pot and taking 10 hrs to cook it down, what do you do with it?
@@darrengarlough5121 we drain the sweet boil it down on the stove to the point of maple syrup. This last batch we keep for ourselves to enjoy, its usually a bit darker than the rest.
We keep the rest of the sweet in the pans then flood with sap. Leave this ferment which creates a vinegar like acid. We leave it sit in the pans a few weeks then rinse clean. The fermented sap cleans up all the minerals and sugar sand in the pans.
Do you you find yourself having to tip the unit up some to get all the sunup?
Yes! I have a stick of wood about 1-1/4” thick that we put under the back of the unit tilting it forward the whole time we are using it. This works pretty well.
@@southdownfarm6323 ok thank you and merry Christmas
Once bottled, how long do you have to wait before you sell it?
It’s ready to sell right away, it is good right off the bat but does improve with a little age.
Not convenient
Perhaps but It works great and is super affordable!
We just moved to Kentucky this fall. We’re hoping to make syrup this year. Can you give me an idea of the time frame we can expect the sap run. I realize it’s weather dependent, but just a general window.
We normally tap our trees the first two weeks of January and go to the end of February. What area of the state did you move to?
We’re in Grayson county near Caneyville.
@@KowalskiMountain do you know about the Kentucky Maple Syrup Association? It is a good way to meet producers in the state. kymaplesyrup.com/
Wasn’t that deversion piece suppose to be covered in insulation as well? I just got my evaporator and getting ready to brick mine.
You are exactly right! I changed it after the video was made and someone pointed that out to me. All the best!
Thank you for this video. I built mine almost identical to yours only slightly bigger. And yes….. I made my sliding door 10ft high. Great setup👍
Thanks! What state are you in?
South central PA just west of Gettysburg
That coop is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay to muddy and nasty. That is why your eggs are so dirty. Get them a decent coop, that has a dry floor.
How hot is the water
Should be Scalding
Beautiful Set Up!! However,could you ever produce enough syrup too cover all that cost??
My parents were from the deep south and my mom made this for us every year between Christmas and New Year. We use to slice it and fry it up in a skillet and eat it with eggs or grits. Delicious 😋.
Vice the drill to a table and zip tie the trigger. Let’s you have both hands for maneuvering
Growing up in Arizona my mom always made scrapple and I wish I lived closer to you! Yummmmm!! I'm in WA.
Very helpful video. Thanks Tell me about your floor and its base. It looks like cement or cement board.
I grew up in the blue ridge mountains of Virginia my father was taught by a wonderful family of mennonites how to make scrapple. I eat it everywhere I go and can’t find anything as good as what my father made. I wish as a teenager I paid more attention to how he made it as I can’t replicate it. Thanks for the video.
I see that you have the blower on this modle. what are you getting for GPH out of this 2x6.
Where did you buy your scrubber?
Its 369 USD
Can you do a video on how you install the plastic
Throw the fertilizer in that stand and plant so you don't have to go back after. It looks like it would save you time and money
you forgot the eyeballs and spleens