"Every afternoon, I go out with a bucket full of empty pop bottles and fill them with the sap," Heard said. "And then I boil, boil, boil, boil, boil." Maple syrup is graded based on when the sap is ...

Multiple countries contribute to each container of the sticky sweetener, with the vast majority of equipment sold by Canada.

When your sap is coming in, it’s getting processed through pretty quickly,” she said. “If the sugar content in the sap lowers, it takes a little longer to boil it and get to the 66 per cent bricks we ...

Making maple syrup in New England’s fickle ... Stainless steel fixtures used to connect sap lines and boil the liquid into syrup can originate in China. Packaging often comes from Italy.

One of Wild’s projects is finding ways to keep large amounts of maple syrup cool after it flows from the tapped trees. This allows him to store sap over several days (and choose a time to boil it that ...

A leaf-shaped bottle of maple syrup beside a stroopwafel and some leaves - Pixel-Shot/Shutterstock ...

The shack will be used to boil sap collected from maple trees in the park into maple syrup. Area students have been learning about the maple syrup-making process by helping to collect sap and ...