Galloway Farm

 I recently purchased a “tree tapping kit” from TapMyTrees.com.  The starter kit has everything we needed to tap 3 of our biggest sugar maple trees.  That’s right, we’re going to make our own maple syrup!  This was a family affair, everyone was excited.  It’s actually very easy to do.  You drill a hole in the tree, and the sap just starts dripping out!  I expected the sap to be…well, syrupy.  But it really just looks like water with a slightly sweet taste.  What I didn’t know was that sap spoils like milk if out in the heat too long.  So we lost 2 of our 3 inital batches.  From the 3rd bucket, we got about 3 liters of sap within a few days.  I’ll post again when we attempt to boil it down to syrup.

Tree tap with bucket for sap collection

Sap just starts dripping out!