Tapping Trees on your Homestead

Episode 7: Tapping a Tree for Maple Syrup What to tap and when? All maples can be tapped for sap. Sugar maples are the sweetest.Can also tap:Birch, walnut, black and english walnut, linden, box elder, butternut, sycamore, palm and gorose. All trees’ saps have their own flavor. Maple (Sugar, Silver, Black, Red, Norway, Big Leaf)40 parts of sap yields 1 part of finished syrup Tap when daytime temperatures are above 32F (0C) and nighttime temperatures are below Birch (European White, Paper,...