As winter wanes and spring approaches, wild foodists all across North America tap into the time-honored tradition of sugar production – mainly, the transformation of maple tree sap into maple…

How to collect sap and make maple syrup at home. AND YOU DON'T NEED SUGAR MAPLE TREES! Make your own maple syrup with only one or two trees.

Make your own maple syrup! Part I explained how to identify the trees and collect the sap, and this part details how to boil off the sap, and how to filter and can the syrup. Also covers info on color and flavor.

Across the region, record winter temperatures are wreaking havoc with maple tree systems, forcing syrup producers to tap trunks early in the hope of catching the best, most sugary sap before it disappears with spring. At least one producer in Massachusetts, Turtle Lane Maple Farm in North Andover, has decided not to tap its trees because the warm weather has so depleted the trees’ sugar, making the production of syrup too onerous and costly.

Learn to make birch syrup at home with this hand-holding step by step guide that takes you from creating the spiles to storing the finished syrup.

Build a homemade maple syrup evaporator using these step-by-step instructions to harvest your maple syrup on your homestead.

Which trees can you tap for sap, what do you need, and how do you do it? You'll never believe it but I have the answers to alllllll those questions for you right here. If you stumbled here because you want to learn how to make maple syrup, you should

Ever wondered how to tap maple trees for making syrup? Here is a simple guide to tapping your own maples trees at home!

The Cornell Maple Program is working with New York state producers to study the potential or producing syrup from birch and walnut trees.

Mapling, or sugaring, is the process of collecting and boiling down the sap from maple trees in order to make syrup. It is an ancient practice, being one of…

Wanna make your own maple syrup? Learn from a few of my failures! Start here-->

How to know when it is time to tap maple trees for sugaring off.

Make Maple Syrup - Tapping Maple Trees Collect and Process Sap

🍁 See how maple syrup is made with pictures and information! This is a fun homeschool fieldtrip for later winter to learn about maple syrup for kids!

Real (from a tree) Maple syrup….. When I say those words do you think of Vermont? Maybe you think of the high price associated with buying it. Well I am here to tell you that you can make your own and you don’t even have to live in Vermont to do it!! While most people are by now ready for spring to get here, and trust me, I long for it too….. I just keep telling myself that these -30 days are going to make for an amazing sap run, which means jars upon jars of liquid gold in my pantry. The…