Got a maple tree? Get your drill, the kids, the neighbors and go outside and tap it.

Have you always wanted to learn to tap maple trees to make your own maple syrup? Then you’re in luck because maple syrup season is almost here. The 2025 maple syrup season is on the horizon, so ...

Though sap flow occurs in a wide variety of trees, there is one variety that produces a sap sweeter than them all: The Sugar Maple. For a six-week window of time before the break of spring, the ...

Maple trees are just the beginning. You can tap, boil, and brew tree syrup from many other species too.

"We tap over 400 trees and we make the sap into syrup.” she said. Bauer says you can tap any species of maple tree.

Step 1: Identify which trees to tap Syrup is primarily made from sugar maples, red maples, and black maples, though some other species can be used as well.

Author and experienced syrup-producer Rich Finzer shares how to tap a maple tree using his easy and successful collection system in this excerpt from chapter six, “Tapping and Sap Collection.” ...

The Indigenous peoples of North America had taught the first European colonizers how to tap the maple tree and make maple sugar or syrup.

Sap can be collected from birch or box elder trees, also in the maple family, but it takes more sap to make the syrup, advised Friends of Maplewood volunteers.

Carriage Hill MetroPark's maple sugaring program is happening Saturday, Feb. 19 starting at 10 a.m. The event is free to attend and open to the public.

From sap to syrup: Volunteers tap in Minnesota park's maple trees When the high temperatures rise above freezing and the daily lows stay below freezing, the sap starts to run in maple trees. On ...