PASS THE SYRUP PLEASE!
Have a maple tree in your backyard?
You can tap it to make real maple syrup.
Maple syrup can be made from sugar, black, red, and silver maple trees, but the highest concentration of sugar is found in the sap of the sugar maple.
You can tap it to make real maple syrup.
Maple syrup can be made from sugar, black, red, and silver maple trees, but the highest concentration of sugar is found in the sap of the sugar maple.
Here are the simple tools you'l1 need to get started:
• drill
• large boiling pan
• hammer
• candy thermometer
• galvanized bucket
• tapping spouts
Even kids can do it!
View demonstrations online to learn how to tap a maple tree or take part in Michigan’s Maple Syrup Day. Visitors are invited to the host park where they can help tap a maple tree.
