Maple tapping isn't for the weak, it's a labor-intensive job. According to Tom, an angled hole is drilled about 1.5" deep and bags or bins positioned outside the tree collect the sap. To increase ...

Maple sap drips into a plastic collection bag on Feb. 24 in Quasqueton. (Orlan Love/correspondent) Two days before the predicted warmup, the neighborhood cardinal, without the benefit of weather ...

To gather maple sap, a hollowed-out wooden spout ... They also use plastic wine bags to collect sap, which they transfer to buckets and carry to the nearby sugar shack to a large storage barrel.

Distance to the maple grove was about a mile ... When I spied the first sap bags hanging at the beginning of February, I had to wonder whether anything was truly flowing, and how long it would ...

Jim Heinze drives his tractor through the woods surrounded by blue bags that are collecting sap from maple trees on April 12, 2023, near Deer Creek, Minnesota. It was a rather rude awakening ...

The bags slowly started to fill as soon as they ... they continue collecting sap and working with a local processor to cook collected sap into maple syrup. “The boiling sap is like really ...

Re-enactors dressed as pioneers will show how tubing and plastic bags are used in the process, which also includes boiling the sap and then filtering sand to make the finished product: pure maple ...

"Maple season is about a six-week window from when you tap the tree to when you're done collecting sap from the tree," said Haley Goulet of the Natick Community Organic Farm. They just tapped ...