Mark Fenderson, right, chats with Austin Moore while waiting for sap to evaporate Monday in the sugar shack that Fenderson maintains with his friends in Whitefield.  Hilton Head Farm jars about 100 gallons of syrup and should be able to yield that much this year despite mild weather, according to Fenderson. The sap is running, Fenderson said, “I can’t complain so far.”

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