How is maple syrup made?
Winter is not a very conducive season for the maple to grow, and it keeps its juice in its roots. Come spring, a time that the trees start to generate leaves and flowers, a chemical change referred by the farmers as buddy will have transpired that gives the sap an unlikable flavor. While cold nights sends the sap back to its roots, Only in early spring, more often than not February through April, that the trees can be tapped because warm days stimulate the sap to go up back to its branches to serve as nourishment to the growing leaves. To tap a maple tree a hole is bored at a somewhat rising angle to avert sap from gathering into the opening, freezing, and fracturing the stem. This sap is collected using the traditional way of using a canvass or a container dangled and positioned strategically to catch the dripping sap, after which the collection is directed to the sugar house where it is processed. Contemporary systems do away with the collection process on the whole and propel sap wi
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