Maple trees — and the sap that flows through them — reign supreme for syrup-making in New England. But with a record-warm winter , some maple syrup producers have seen a decline in their ...

Tapping is when you drill a hole into the tree no deeper than 1.5 inches. You want to tap trees in early spring and when the temperatures are above freezing to prevent damage to the tree.

Know before you tap for sap. When tapping, remember to choose healthy, mature maple trees. If you’re keen to try tapping your ...

The News-Leader spoke with Rachael West, founder of Eating the Ozarks, about tree tapping, a process that should be started before the end of January.

Other maple syrup farmers in the Northland said this late start to spring has not affected their tapping since 1996. For more information on Maple Tree sap you can look here . For another story ...

According to Mass Audubon, it takes 40 to 50 gallons of raw sugar maple sap to produce a single gallon on syrup. Every year Massachusetts produces 50,000-60,000 gallons of maple syrup.

Mark and Susan Lockwood have made a hobby of tapping maple trees on their Seekonk property each year for the past 24 years. In a homemade evaporator, gallons of sap are boiled all day long at the ...

Nick Downs with Merle Maple said that he can tap roughly 500-600 trees per day. “The winter is milder and warming up sooner, so we start tapping sooner,” said Greg Zimpfer with Merle Maple.

Maple syrup is one of those foods that conjures up particular imagery – the trees, the color red, the forests, the sap dripping into metal buckets. And there is the conviviality of the sugar house ...

The News-Leader spoke with Rachael West, founder of Eating the Ozarks, about tree tapping, ... For a syrup with a flavor most similar to maple syrup found in stores, use a sugar maple tree.

About 40 gallons of sap boil down to 1 gallon of pure maple syrup. Matt Lockwood, Susan and Mark's son, has begun tapping trees and keeping the tradition alive at his own property in Norton, MA.