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Sugar Maple trees are ''tapped'' in the early Spring to collect the treeps sap. A small hole is bored into the tree bark. When the maple tree's roots begin to collect water and send it up to the branches and budding leaves, some of this clear watery fluid drips out of the hole and is collected in a special bucket. The farmer gathers these buckets from hundreds of sugar maple trees and brings the sap to his Sugarhouse. The sap is slowly heated to evaporate much of the water and it turns into delicious sugary maple syrup, yum! |
