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		<title>Get Ready For The 2026 Birch Tapping Season!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 02:01:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[As we &#8220;allegedly&#8221; approach &#8220;spring,&#8221; some of you might interested in trying your hand at tapping birch! If you didn&#8217;t know, northern birch can be tapped similar to maple trees, also allowing the tapper to produce birch syrup. We&#8217;ve tried our hands at this, quite a few times. Enough, that we&#8217;ve been able to refine [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>It&#8217;s Birch Tapping Season In The Far North!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2025 19:42:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve started getting reports that the birch sap is starting to run here in Interior Alaska! So, if you&#8217;re a birch tapper or you&#8217;ve wanted to get into it, now&#8217;s the time! There is a very limited time window of a few weeks we have to do this and this is it! For the uninitiated, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Birch Tapping Season Is Now Upon Us!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Apr 2024 19:29:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[As we got home from our brief visit to South Central Alaska, we are starting to notice the tell-tale signs that it&#8217;s birch tapping season here in the Interior! If this is something you&#8217;re interested in, we&#8217;ve got a detailed article on how to do it at the home scale, which you&#8217;ll find linked in [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Promoting Wild Perennials On Your Property</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Aug 2023 05:47:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[One of the things that&#8217;ve done with our property is to promote the natural bounty that Alaska has to offer. Wild raspberries, and other native fruits, are exceptionally easy to find growing practically everywhere around us. Years ago, we started to maintain our wild raspberries not too dissimilarly to how one prunes and maintains domesticated [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Early Season Compost Harvesting Is Always A Challenge In The North!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 May 2023 02:38:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Well, we&#8217;re giving a shot at an early season compost harvest! Our spring harvest is always a bit challenging, since most of our compost pile is still frozen! This is our finished &#8220;wood chip&#8221; compost that we talk about, where we hot compost in the summer and cold compost over the long winter. This composting [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Birch Buds Starting To Come Out, Birch Tapping &#038; Syrup Season Is Upon Us!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 May 2023 01:35:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[As I drove into work today, I caught glimpse of the earliest birch buds starting to finally grow. This means birch tapping season is nearly upon us here in the Interior! Just like our gardens, birch tapping season is getting a later than usual start this year due to the colder than normal spring! If [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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