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Month: February 2019

Maple Sugaring Part II: Burning Off

Maple Sugaring Part II: Burning Off

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Okay! We started recently with how to tap maple trees and collect sap; now we’re going over burning off. Sap is almost entirely water, so we use the burning off process to evaporate the water and leave behind the sugar syrup. This is something you want to do outside, as it takes something like 30-40 gallons of sap to make 1 gallon of syrup. If you’re doing the math with me that’s a lot of water being released into the…

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Maple Sugaring Part I: How To Tap Maple Trees

Maple Sugaring Part I: How To Tap Maple Trees

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One of the statements that we often hear is a marveled “I don’t know HOW you do it, I could never do that!” The fact of the matter is that most of what we do is not hard. Indeed, most of it is pretty easy. Tapping maple trees is probably the easiest of those things; I think more people should do it it’s so simple. Though we’re in the throes of winter and only just finished a brutal polar vortex,…

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