![]() One great trick is to follow a local maple syrup farm on social media and start tapping your trees when they post that they’ve started as well. Around here, we can usually find a week or so of ideal conditions around mid-to-late February. Ideally, you want it to be a bit below freezing at night and in the morning, but get up a few degrees above freezing during the day. You’ll want to find that perfect time of year when the temperature is sort of wavering back and forth around the freezing mark. This process is amazingly easy and doesn’t really take much skill other than finding the right time when the sap is really running. □ Collecting the Sap From Your Maple Trees Norway Maples are actually considered to be an invasive species as they tend to out-compete native species like Sugar Maples in a forest-setting, but our maples are all pretty well-contained in the middle of our lawn, have been there for thirty years or more as far as we know, and aren’t really affecting anything else, so we don’t worry too much about it. Most people will find that syrup made from Norway Maples tastes very similar to that made from Sugar Maples and works just fine in all of your typical syrup applications. Most of our maples are Norway Maples, so those are the ones that we use for harvesting syrup. ![]() Of course, traditional Sugar Maples are the first tree that you think of when it comes to maple syrup, but did you know that you can actually harvest maple syrup from any type of maple tree? The flavour of the syrup is slightly different for each variety of tree, and types other than Sugar Maples might not produce quite as much syrup due to a lower sugar content in the sap, but they still work very well for making your own syrup. If you have some maple trees you’d like to try this with, here’s how to harvest maple syrup! Which Type of Maple Trees to Harvest Maple Syrup From We have about 12 big maple trees on our property, but we usually end up only tapping a few of them and we end up with enough syrup to last us for a few good pancake breakfasts. ![]() It’s a slow process, so it’s a perfect opportunity maybe do a little yard cleanup while we’re out there waiting and checking on the syrup. Then we get to spend a sunny weekend day boiling our sap down outside and trying to get the consistency just right. ![]() It’s so fun to check to see how much sap we’ve collected each morning during that time and to watch the temperature and try to determine when will be the very best day to start tapping our trees. I don’t quite remember why we decided to try harvesting maple syrup from the maple trees on our property a few years ago, but its really become an early spring tradition around here. If you’d like to try it too, here’s how to harvest maple syrup from your maple trees! 27 Shares This is something we’ve done for quite a few years now and it’s such a fun and rewarding early spring activity. ![]()
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