The weather in Michigan is perfect for gathering sugar maple sap. When the nights are cold, and the days are warm, it’s perfect because the sap freezes at night, then melts and flows during the day. I have tapped only three sugar maples, making sure that they were hard maples, not soft. The reason for just tapping three trees was because I just won’t have the time to collect and boil down a lot of sap.
So far, I have collected four gallons of sap. By this weekend, I hope to have about fifteen gallons of sap. I’m not sure how much maple syrup this will produce. I’m guessing that I might get two or three pints of maple syrup!The process of tapping the sugar maple trees is very easy. You only need a small drill, tubing, taps, wire, and of course...sugar maples!
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