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WE tapped a few trees for fun for the kids and our sap buckets are getting so full! We emptied this morning...it will be fun, rob says we will boil some down tonight...we won't get much...maybe a pint at a time...but it's the whole experience. As a kid we always made our syrup...enough for our family and to sell some. It was fun!

Subject: Re: sap Tue 04 Mar 2008, 5:56 am

That sounds like so much fun, Kim.
That is great.

A vendor I talk to often says she and her husband do this as well. They give the syrup away as gifts and sell them.

Very cool.
Makes me want to go and buy up some land with alot of pine trees on them. Is that what kind of trees have the sap?
If that's the case, we have 4 of them here. I wonder if we'd get any next year. :-) I know those are the ones we're looking to get removed.

~M
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Subject: Re: sap Tue 04 Mar 2008, 7:31 am

Kim this sounds like a great idea. Could you enlighten me as to what trees you do , how you do it, etc...
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You tap Maple trees...for MAPLE syrup...lol....
All you do is drill a hole in a tree...stick a straw in...drill a ice cream bucket to the tree with another hole poked into the lid of the bucket. Then, you put the other end of the straw that's in the tree into the hole in the lid. The sap will just pour into the bucket. It goes pretty fast. then your empty your buckets when full. You must keep your sap cold ,like milk, it will spoil. When you have enough you boil it for a long time and it makes syrup. Boiling it can tricky..and sticky,,,lol...
It takes alot of sap to make a little syrup...like 5 gallons of sap to amke a pint of syrup. hope this helps!

Subject: Re: sap Tue 04 Mar 2008, 8:43 am

Just to add to Kim's post. Sugar maple trees are what you need, maybe some others too but around here we mostly have silver maples and other maples that do not give sap Sad

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Subject: Re: sap Tue 04 Mar 2008, 10:34 am

thanks ladies. Not sure if we have thoses around here. I doubt it though
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Subject: Re: sap Tue 04 Mar 2008, 10:35 am

Mmm.. sounds absolutely delicious.

Subject: Re: sap Tue 04 Mar 2008, 10:59 am

kim that sounds like so much fun we used to take the kids up to Vermont to Frank cousin and we do that .. Jerry moved to Florida and that ended the syrup making
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We are going to empty our sap buckets again this afternoon...I can't believe how fast it's running...but we are now getting ice...so it will probly freeze up.

Subject: Re: sap Wed 05 Mar 2008, 9:30 am

I think that is a awesome learning experience for kids ans adults too.I would do it all the time if we had a sugar maple trees!