Though sap flow occurs in a wide variety of trees, there is one variety that produces a sap sweeter than them all: The Sugar Maple. For a six-week window of time before the break of spring, the ...

Learn how to tap a maple tree and which collection system is best for you.

Jerry Attere, naturalist, Cook County Forest Preserves, demonstrates tree-tapping techniques during the River Trail Nature Center's Maple Syrup Festival Sunday. The festival was free and included ...

The Indigenous peoples of North America had taught the first European colonizers how to tap the maple tree and make maple sugar or syrup.

The maple sugaring program will be done using traditional tapping tools from the 1880s, while still teaching attendees how they can identify and tap maple trees in their own backyard today.

The News-Leader spoke with Rachael West, founder of Eating the Ozarks, about tree tapping, a process that should be started before the end of January.

It’s a really good family event.” Trees are tapped by drilling a hole and inserting in a spile, or metal spout. The spile holds a bucket and helps the sap drip into the bucket.

Baltimore County Recreation and Park’s naturalist Lena Sawyer hammers in a homemade spile, or tap into a maple tree after drilling a small hole. The Benjamin Banneker Historical Park and Museum ...