Know Your Maple Syrup Numbers A really friendly sugar maple tree may yield sap that is almost 5 percent sugar by volume. This is potent enough to really taste the sweetness in each drop of sap. Other ...

Other trees, however, just aren’t that generous. Some of the other maple species and other “tappable” trees may barely give you 2% sugar by volume.

A sap bucket hangs from a tap on a red maple tree. The warm days and cold nights of the past week have created ideal conditions for sap flow, which is used to make maple syrup.

If you have maple trees or room for them, you can begin maple sugaring at home. Making maple syrup at home is fun and makes delicious gifts.

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 ...

Step 3: Tap trees and insert spiles Tapping sugar maple trees to collect sap for making maple syrup.

Got a maple tree? Get your drill, the kids, the neighbors and go outside and tap it.

Love maple syrup? Well, now there are classes to learn how to make it right in the Twin Cities metro.

Food & Drink How to Make the Most of Vermont’s Maple Syrup Season March and April are when the state’s maple trees are tapped for sticky-sweet syrup.