Maple Tree sap tapping has been difficult in 2023 for a lot of farmers. Due to inconsistent weather and snow maple sap tapping may be over.

That means it’s time to tap into those maple trees to begin the process of converting the sticky sap into delicious maple syrup or other confections.

When maple sugaring in the spring, we are actually tapping into the xylem, the sugars in this kind of sap come from the woody parts of the tree.

Tapping maple trees has a long history in North America; first practiced in Indigenous communities and later taken and commercialized by white settlers. Sugar maple trees have the highest sugar ...

But not every tree-tapping operation uses tubing or big evaporators. Baylor Regional Park in Norwood Young America uses old school five gallon buckets and bags to collect the sap from about 40 ...

Fifth-grade students from the Indian Community School in Franklin learn how to tap maple trees for sap on Feb. 27, 2024, in the Wehr Nature Preserve.

With a few tools, you can secure a tap and tubing line to one or several trees for sap collection. Then, you can reduce the sap on your stovetop to make fresh, all-natural syrup.

Have you always wanted to learn to tap maple trees to make your own maple syrup? Then you’re in luck because maple syrup season is almost here. The 2025 maple syrup season is on the horizon, so ...

Stephanie Singer (Great Swamp Outdoor Education Center naturalist and teacher) explains how tap a Maple tree. Attendees also learned to how to collect sap, and make syrup over a wood-fired evaporator.

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.

Marylanders have an opportunity to see how sap was tapped from trees over time to make maple syrup.

It usually takes 30-40 gallons of sugar maple sap to produce one gallon of pure maple syrup! The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources provides information to try tapping trees at home.