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

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

Whether you have a single maple in your backyard or hundreds of different tree species scattered across acreage, you can easily learn how to set up a tree tap at home.

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Stephanie Singer (Great Swamp Outdoor Education Center naturalist and teacher) explains how tap a Maple tree. Attendees also learned to how to collect sap, and make syrup over a wood-fired evaporator.

Maple syrup is one of those foods that conjures up particular imagery – the trees, the color red, the forests, the sap dripping into metal buckets. And there is the conviviality of the sugar house ...

The nights are still cold but days are (mostly) becoming milder. That means it’s time to tap into those maple trees to begin the process of converting the sticky sap into delicious maple syrup ...

Whether you have a single maple in your backyard or hundreds of different tree species scattered across acreage, you can easily learn how to set up a tree tap at home. With a few tools, you can ...

The 31st annual Maple Tree Tap in Hancock, Iowa, brought together families to learn about tree tapping basics and silver maple tree conservation. The event also showcased the use of the sap ...

The maple sugaring program will be done using traditional tapping tools from the 1880s, while still teaching attendees how they can identify and tap maple trees in their own backyard today.

“If we wanted to have an educational program, and maple syrup, we needed to tap the trees,” said Hanson. Initially, the sap was collected in pails and boiled down in open pans to make the syrup.