Category: 2019 Maple syrup season

This article was originally created in 2019 to capture my personal experiences and learnings from tapping maple trees in my suburban backyard. There are a lot of nuggets in the information below, but if you want to see something more up-to-date, check out the 2021 season review 2022 season review  When…

Well, it’s official. Today, I made maple syrup at home. Take a look: It tasted delicious. But I did make a huge mess and a few mistakes. I’ll share the full adventure with you here, so you won’t make the same mistakes I did. Making maple syrup at home from…

In my second big day in a row. Weather has been great. Check this out: In less than 24 hours, I collected 2.75 more gallons of sap, almost all from Tree #2. There was a small amount (3 cups?) from Tree #1 and the rest from tree #2. I ran…

The weather has been amazing for collecting sap. Sunday, the temperature went from the 20s to the 40s. Like the obsessed psychopath that I am, I checked the taps every few hours to look for sap dripping. When I first tapped the tree, I could literally see the sap dripping.…

It was bitterly cold for most of this past week: Sap ran early in the week and then the temperature got too cold. Tuesday delivered 3/4 gallon of sap again, for a grand total of 1.5 gallons of sap. I boiled it down on Saturday, to save some room in…

January 24th, it’s the second day in a row that the temperature was above 40 degrees Fahrenheit and I can officially report…the sap is flowing. Tree # 1 started flowing – I collected 1.75 cups, which is pretty close to the 2.25 cups I collected on day 1 of the other…

Report on day 3. You can find Day 1 and Day 2 here. Well, the temperature dropped quickly yesterday. It was 38 degrees Fahrenheit at 11 am and was 24 by 4:30 pm. That stopped the sap from running in tree # 2 (tree # 1 never got started). So…

This is Day 2 of starting a new hobby of trying to make maple syrup at home from the two silver maple trees in my backyard. I tapped each tree yesterday, thinking that today (Sunday) and Wednesday-Thursday might be good days for sap–based on info found online. It snowed and…