PICTURES AND OUR YOUTUBE VIDEOS

   View from the property we acquired in Talkeetna Alaska   

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  We have been taping this land and it was offered to us this year to buy.  It has the most outstanding views on a clear day of Mckinley and the whole range showing lakes below too.  Just breath taking and we are pretty excited.  I'll get more pictures this summer.

Cabin Rental Video Link

Click the links below to see one of the cabins  Kevin  built with the mitigated lumber he harvested, milled and built himself.   I took this the other day.  We are getting ready for the new season.  The cabin was remodeled this year.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cE6IGozMDk

Making Birch Syrup in Alaska

Kevin and Gary Alfonsi making Birch Syrup this year in the sugar house at the Alaska Birch Syrup Company.  2011 was our second biggest year ever over the last ten years.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBpXRdUzJ7Y

Kevin has made a mobile unit for sap processing until he has the financing to build a permanent structure. We did just acquire the most beautiful land in Talkeetna with the most amazing view of Mckinley with views of the lake below.  We also have a piece of frontage on the spur road for a sap collecting station.  We used this portable unit last year for the first time and it worked out beautifully doubling production.  This year 2011 was our second biggest producing year ever since 2000. We are trying to expand as we have always sold out of syrup before the following year.  Many orders are on contract and the syrup is sold before it is even made. Talkeetna is going to be where we manufacturer a large percentage of our Syrup in the future.   We are being forced to move because Wasilla now doesn't get adequate snow in Spring for birch syrup production with changes in the whether. The equipment shown below goes into this portable unit.   He created this unit so we didn't have to transport so much sap back to the valley where our evaporator is located at this time. Remember it takes approximately 100 gallons of sap to make 1 gallon of birch Syrup. We first run our sap through the reverse osmosis removing most of the water before it is transported back to boil in Wasilla where the syrup is made.

Kevin starting the Construction of his Mobile Sap Collection until                                                                     Kevin and his son William

              Reverse Osmosis Machine                                                                                                                    Sap concentrate storage tank

                           Tell me Dad, is it syrup yet?                                                                       Phil helping William look through the evaporator window

                                                                                                         Dad taking time in between batches of syrup to play with William   2011