What kinds of trees are tapped?
Syrup can be made from the sap of any native maple, as well as from Black Walnut trees and some fruit trees. Sugar Maples are preferred because their sap has the highest sugar content. 3. What is sap? Sap is a solution of water, sugar and minerals. In the spring, sugary sap is delivered to the buds so that the new leaves can grow. These leaves will manufacture sugar during the summer; the sugar will be stored in the tree for the following year’s new growth. 4. How much sap do we take from a tree? Our Sugar Maples yield sap at the rate of about one gallon per tap hole per day during the height of the season. This means that each tap yields enough sap to make 1-2 quarts of syrup. 5. How much syrup can we make from one gallon of sap? About 2 1/2 ounces. It takes 40 gallons of Sugar Maple sap to make one gallon of syrup. For other types of Maples it takes even more sap to make a gallon of syrup. 6. How do we make syrup from sap? Boil, boil, boil…until most of the water in the sap has bee
