Cold Time concerns for Wilmington’s maple syrup manufacturer – iheart

Wilmington, table. (WBZ NEWSRADIO) – There are many things we don’t like in cold weather.

By increasing the risks of health problems such as Hypothermia and Frostbiteto the cause of interruptions of transport due to ice and snow, to the closure of schools and enterprises, to damage to the infrastructure such as roads and pipes, as well as killing electricity and voltage of the electricity network due to the higher energy requirements.

There is a long list of negative impacts from this prolonged frigid meteorological model that we are experiencing this winter.

And here’s another: shortened maple syrup season in the Grand Boston area.

Rob bean from Maple farms with honey Wilmington is a small manufacturer of maple syrup and he said the syrup season is more than a month, which is lagging behind due to icy temperatures. “This is the first time we patted the season so late,” he said.

The juice flows only at a certain temperature.

Bessulo said that Monday this week is the first day SAP started working in the area, and although he said that this season he would probably be shortened, he still hoped for a good season. “In a good year we can be up to 60 gallons,” he said.

As a small manufacturer of maple syrup, beans said it gave its neighbors to cut the syrup in exchange for the use of their trees. “It’s a work of love,” Said Said.

Chaiel Schaffel on WBZ News Radio (@Cschaffelwbz) Reports.