The supply chain for maple water and maple syrup are the same: Farmers tap maple trees and collect the sap when it starts to flow in the spring. Unlike syrup, which is boiled down into a thick ...

Have you always wanted to learn to tap maple trees to make your own maple syrup? Then you’re in luck ... time when the temperature drops below the water’s freezing point and then rises enough ...

Most maple syrup producers tap trees between January and April ... plus lots of minerals and water. Once the sap is fully harvested, it is boiled down to remove most of the water content ...

All the sap collected was poured into a trough, where they would drop hot stones into it to boil off the excess water. The thick fluid that was left in the trough was the syrup. We still use the same ...

That bitterly cold week, with its dry air and ample sunlight, provided ideal conditions for snow to transition directly to water ... a maple tree on Feb. 23 in Quasqueton. Kress and his syrup ...

During the maple syrup season – happening currently – over 1,300 students come to help. They typically tap around 100 trees at the park. Those tapped trees produce around 1,000 gallons of sap.