Tapping maple trees

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.

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

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

Learn how to make maple syrup in our homemade maple syrup guide. From learning how to tap your trees, boil down the sap into syrup, and our baking guide on using maple syrup in place

Many tree species are full of sap ready to be tapped for syrup. In fact, you may have one in your own backyard, including maple and birch.

How to Tap Maple Trees - a simple, step-by-step tutorial that answers all of your questions about tapping maple trees!

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

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!

This is Part 3 of our Maple Syrup Series: How to Tap Maple Trees & Collect the Sap. In this post, we will show you how to tap your maple trees with an instructional video, discuss why it is important to have a tapping and collecting game plan, and show you how we collect and

Tapping maple trees doesn't have to be hard. With the right supplies and knowledge, you can have gallons of homemade maple syrup this year.