Interpretive tour: Tree Tapping and Measuring, Signs of Spring, Sweetwater Discovery, Settled into Spring, Changing Seasons and the Sugar Shack Scavenger hunt Family activities Tales on the Trail Taffy (additional cost) Pancake House (additional cost) Don’t forget to take some maple treats ...
This means that nailing any sort of hardware into the tree trunk cannot be used. In addition, the typical conventional practice of using toxic paint to mark trees cannot be used. The practice of tapping the maple trees to extract the sap can vary widely between conventional and organic ...
The early spring cooling/thawing cycle releases the upward flow of sap stored in the tree’s root system. In a good harvest, the sap flows fastest during four or five “runs”--10 gallons per tap at the peak. Otherwise, the maples slowly “weep” their clear, sticky and barely sweet t...
Tubing entails running tubes from maple tree to maple tree, collecting sap from each tree and funneling it seamlessly into a single, large collection tank(in our case, the 275 gallon food-grade container we bought from The Barrel Guy–not a business name, just his actual name). If you’re...
Here we refer to dormancy release as a period when the tree metabolism changes prior to bud break. We based our analysis on an index representing the remaining Sum of cumulative temperature necessary to reach the stage of Bud Break (Sbb), which we formulated using the model of Raulier and ...
Maple syrup is not a “processed” product because the only steps involved in making the finished product involve boiling the tree sap to remove naturally occurring water, and the resulting product is what is bottled. Typically a de-foamer is used during the boiling process to prevent excessive...