In early spring, often before snow-melt, sugar maple trees are "tapped".
March and April are when the state’s maple trees are tapped for sticky-sweet syrup.
We’ve tapped into our Canadian roots to bring you the better-than-the-sugar-shack Maple Pistachio latte made with Pistachio Ice Cream tea and Maple Matcha.
Drink Simple Sparkling Maple Water is delightfully refreshing, nutrient-packed, tree-based hydration with naturally occurring plant-powered electrolytes, prebiotics, and no added sugar. Maple water is tapped directly from maple trees.
Drink Simple Sparkling Maple Water is delightfully refreshing, nutrient-packed, tree-based hydration with naturally occurring plant-powered electrolytes, prebiotics, and no added sugar. Maple water is tapped directly from maple trees.
Many tree species are full of sap ready to be tapped for syrup. In fact, you may have one in your own backyard, including maple and birch.
In the Green Mountains of Vermont, the transition from winter to spring means one thing: sugaring season, when the trees are tapped, the sap is boiled, and turned into some of the finest maple syrup in the world.
To give credit where credit is due, the title of this post is basically stolen from Rink Mann's, Backyard Sugarin'. I came across this book last summer already having one year of backyard sugarin' under my belt. We had tapped our boulevard maple tree and two old, giant maple trees at my parents' house. Off those…
MacGyver Style Indestructible Maple Sugar Evaporator From Filing Cabinet: For the past few years I've been making my own maple syrup, using techniques found here on Instructables, but I've been doing it the old fashioned way over an open fire. It has worked great for years, but this year I have tapped too many trees and t…
What better time to visit Canada than during its Maple Syrup season. Every year from late February to early April maple trees in Ontario are tapped for their sap. To take part in this very Canadian ritual there are numerous sugar bushes located just a short drive from Toronto that allow visitors to participate in…
Looking to escape New York City for a weekend? Hudson’s got clean air, fresh-tapped maple syrup, breweries galore, and restaurants worth the two-hour train ride.
I had posted this picture on the Ford forum a couple months ago, when we tapped maple trees. My uncle had borrowed the tractor to see how it would work in...
Vertical Water is a maple water on a mission that is taking over the natural alternative water category. Created by Feronia Forests, the brains behind Sustainable Full ForestryTM, Vertical Water is a delicious, sustainably tapped maple water whose core mission is to preserve U.S. forestland through a radical new model for conservation. They tasked BRIGADE […]
I have to confess that I didn't actually tap the maple trees this year. My husband was at home on President's Day (Monday) and he beat me to it! We have only about 12 trees that produce sap well and they can pretty much be tapped in an afternoon. So, the sap is dripping, and dripping with vigor! When the...
564 Cider Mill Road, Cornwall, Vermont USA • Grand Opening Weekend of Churchill & Janet Franklin's new maple sugaring business, with over 1,700 trees tapped; old looking new buildings made from the parts of very old buildings; state of the art stainless evaporator and bottling equipment; horse pulled wagon rides, free breakfasts for hundreds – quite the operation.
Acer palmatum Thunb. Sapindaceae. Japanese maple. Small tree. Distribution: Japan, SE Asia The cultivar 'Villa Taranto ' has orange-red leaves. Can be tapped in early spring for its sugar-rich sap although it is not as abundant as in Acer saccharum. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
Make Birch syrup from your homestead birch trees. You don't need maple trees to make delicious and healthy syrup. Birch trees, alder, hickory, walnut, beechnut, and box elders can all be tapped for their sap in early spring. Here's what you need to know for success.
While the name 'Worm Moon' feels fitting as we prepare for our garden spells, we might also know it as the Sugar or Sap Moon (a nod to the soon-to-be-tapped Maple trees) the Crow Moon (Delaware Native American origin), the Chaste Moon (Medieval origin), or my favorite, the Moon of Winds (Celtic origin).
