JrHomesteader

🍁Making Syrup From Sap🥞 This spring was our 4th year of tapping our Maple trees to make syrup. This post and my next one will walk you through what we did. Several years ago we purchased several taps from a nearby nature center and have been using them since. We found about 30 usable maple trees and drilled a slightly angled hole above their largest root(preferably on the south side of the tree). This year sap started flowing out of the holes as soon as we drilled them, so we quickly pounded the taps in and hung an ice cream bucket from each. By the time we finished tapping all the trees, we had collected almost a full bucket(shown below). After just a few hours, the buckets were almost all full! The sap by itself tastes slightly sweet but by condensing the sugars, you end up with the sticky sweet liquid we all know and enjoy. Can you find all 6 sap buckets in the picture below? Several times a day, we collected sap from all the trees. We didn't worry about the small insects and ...