If you’ve ever taken fall photos of your face half covered by a huge brown or yellow maple leaf, you were probably posing with a true Washington bestie, the ...
An curved arrow pointing right. Once pierced, century-old maple trees drip sap referred to as liquid gold. It will take roughly 50 gallons of these drops to make one 1 gallon of 100% pure Grade A ...
Each spring, students and staff from the Myaamia Center and students and staff from the Western Program tap ten sugar maple trees in Peabody Woods. Maple sugaring, the process of making maple sugar ...
But this tree wasn’t just any tree, it was a Japanese maple tree, and those icicles were made from its characteristically sweet sap. He recalls: “It was a very cold morning, before I went to ...
Sugar-makers rely on a “freeze and thaw cycle” to tap the maple trees. Sap flows when temperatures drop below freezing at night and rise above freezing during the day, Roseum explained.