Our garage operation pales in comparison.ĭid you know it takes (on average) 40 gallons of sap to produce 1 gallon of maple syrup? Each tapped tree only yields 5 to 15 gallons of sap a year, so it takes quite a few trees for people to get their syrup fix.
This is what a true maple sugaring house looks like. Luckily, we have friends with sugar houses, so we can continue to get our local maple syrup, minus the visits from our raccoon and bear friends. There were so many critters that wanted to come in and lick the walls!" This was a downside I had never considered. Her response? "Your dad and I were sick of a sticky house. I asked my mom why we stopped making maple syrup. Our small garage woodstove was topped with the largest pot we owned, and was continually fed our sap gatherings until we boiled down enough syrup to last the year. It was far too heavy for us to carry down by hand. Each morning before school, my brother and I would take a trip around the mountain, visiting our plastic milk bottle taps and collecting all the sap into big 5-gallon pails strapped to the back of the snowmobile that we hauled back to the house. My family used to tap trees when I was younger. I can relate after a winter as long and cold as this one, I also only feel like moving when there's a warm day. The sap from maple trees will only flow in the spring if there's a very cold night, followed by a warmer day (above freezing). There's no better way to celebrate the coming of spring than with maple.
But, we made it! Spring is right around the corner, and with it comes warm weather and green grass. Record snowfall and week-long stretches of -0☏ temperatures have really taken the joy out of the season for many.
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