This story was originally featured on Outdoor Life. There are windows of opportunity in nature, and one of my annual favorites is “sugaring time.” In late winter, tree sap begins to flow, and from the ...
SILVER CREEK, Neb. (KOLN) - When the conditions are just right, Thomas Hemmer taps plastic spiles into sugar maple and silver maple trees to draw out sap the sap. He uses it to make his own maple ...
Mark and Susan Lockwood have made a hobby of tapping maple trees on their Seekonk property each year for the past 24 years. In a homemade evaporator, gallons of sap are boiled all day long at the end ...
The maple trees in your backyard are no less loaded with sap than any of the thousands of maple trees being tapped right now on maple farms across much of Pennsylvania and in states and Canadian ...
You might not have noticed, but drop by drop, the first harvest of 2021 has begun. There's more sunlight. Maple trees and their shallow roots break their dormancy, and the sap will be ready to rise up ...
Explore how tree sap is transformed into sweet maple syrup by attending DuPage Forest Preserve District's March programs: "Maple Sugaring" at Kline Creek Farm or "DIY Maple Sugaring: The Basics" at ...