Red maple (acer rubrum) and silver maple have sap sugar content usually between 1.5% to 2%. This means it takes more gallons of sap, more fuel and a longer time frame to boil this down to a gallon ...

Not every maple tree produces the right sap for syrup, so you can’t just tap any and wait for the magic to happen. At the top of the maple pole is the sugar maple, which gets its name from the ...

She and her husband Jeff are a team. They have been hard at work collecting and boiling down sap into maple syrup in their Mason, N.H., backyard sugar house they call Babel’s Sugar Shack.

As March fills with maple syrup festivals, we come to learn how maple trees aren't at all like factories or franchises. No. The sap they produce and its sugar content — all necessary to boil it ...

Sustained cold weather, like the winter of 2024-25, benefits maple trees and their sap production. Maple syrup offers trace nutrients and a lower glycemic index compared to cane sugar.

For the first time since he started making maple syrup, Wayne Mortimer tapped his sugar maple trees in January. Advertisement Article continues below this ad At a glance The New York State Maple ...

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 now’s ...

Learn to identify a sugar maple tree and tap it to collect the sap. We may see the evaporator in action if there is sap to boil, and we’ll certainly taste some finished syrup from Wild River maples.

To avoid injuring the tree, a tree must be at least 12-inches across to be tapped for sap, which typically indicates an age of over 30 years. A tree of over 20-24 inches can sustain two taps, she ...

A maple tree typically has to be 40 years old in order to be large enough to be used in sugar making. Vince Portelli says even then, a 40-year-old tree with a 10-inch diameter can only handle one tap.

Michigan ranked 5th in maple syrup production in 2024, with 650,000 trees tapped and 200,000 gallons of sap collected, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said. What is artificial maple syrup made ...