Insert spile: tap the spile with a hammer, with the hook facing out, you'll secure the spile into the tree. If the sap is flowing, sap should flow from the spile.

The Lockwoods have a sweet family tradition: making homemade maple syrup using sap from their own trees. Here's how they do it.

Some words may be mispronounced. About the time you thought you ought to be out tapping maple trees it got too cold to even go outside, let alone for the sap to flow.