The sap can be tapped, and then boiled down on a wood burning stove at home to make golden, luscious homemade maple syrup.

How to Tap a Maple Tree: Sap Collection Systems Every sap-collection system shares two common elements: tapping maple trees and collecting the sap.

Fifth-grade students from the Indian Community School in Franklin learn how to tap maple trees for sap on Feb. 27, 2024, in the Wehr Nature Preserve.

When the high temperatures rise above freezing and the daily lows stay below freezing, the sap starts to run in maple trees. On Saturday, April 6, at Maplewood State Park near Pelican Rapids, Minn ...

That means it’s time to tap into those maple trees to begin the process of converting the sticky sap into delicious maple syrup or other confections.

Wiggly and talkative 1st-grade pupils from McCarty Elementary School in Aurora listened attentively as Kenney told them how sap forms, when to collect it and which trees to tap.

Much like maple trees, birch trees can be tapped for a steady source of delicious and edible liquid sap, also called birch water.

That’s according to Five Rivers MetroParks, which has been tapping its maple trees for sap at Carriage Hill MetroPark, located at 7850 E. Shull Rd. in Dayton, for about 10 years, according to ...

The maple sap bubbling away in Ron Davis’ upstate New York sugar house is destined for pancakes, waffles, sweets and — for years now — beer kegs. The local syrup adds a touch of woodsy sweetness to ...

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 ...