Maple tapping

The month before maple syrup season is the perfect time to get everything ready before the whirlwind of tapping, collecting sap, and boiling it down for syrup. These are the top ten tips you'll want

Do you have maple trees on your property? Try making maple syrup this spring in your own backyard with just a few basic supplies and plenty of time.

Walk into any gift shop in Vermont and you'll find shelves of maple syrup, alongside t-shirts that boast "I'd tap that" with a maple tree front and center. We love syrup, we love tapping, so

Are you interested in making maple syrup at home? Tapping your own maple trees is easy - seriously! First, you have to get the right maple syrup supplies. Check out the supplies that we use to tap our trees in our backyard.

Another thing to add to my homesteading ideas! How to build a backyard cheap and portable backyard evaporator for maple sap. Tapping maple trees on our property and making maple syrup is a great way to homestead even on a small amount of property. It even has links on how to tap maple trees, how to boil down maple sap and how to finish maple syrup on the stovetop!

Step by step how to tap a maple tree, to collect sap that you can then make into delicious maple syrup.

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Tapping Trees and Making Maple Syrup

Everything's better with maple syrup. So what better way to solidify your love for all things maple than to learn how to make it yourself? If you have a couple of trees nearby, we have all the advice you need from spout to syrup! The following is an excerpt from The Sugarmaker's Companion by Michael

If you have maple trees in your backyard then learning how to tap your maple trees to make homemade maple syrup is a simple process that's easy for a suburban homesteader to do.