Tapping maple trees and boiling the sap into syrup — known as sugaring — isn’t a new hobby. What’s unique about this year is the influx of suburban and urban backyard adventurers fueling ...

But creating maple syrup isn’t as simple as hammering a tap into a tree trunk. In fact, by producing it the old-fashioned way, it takes 40 gallons of maple sap to make one gallon of syrup.

Nick Downs with Merle Maple said that he can tap roughly 500-600 trees per day. “The winter is milder and warming up sooner, so we start tapping sooner,” said Greg Zimpfer with Merle Maple.

Kholin said. Other maple syrup farmers in the Northland said this late start to spring has not affected their tapping since 1996. For more information on Maple Tree sap you can look here.

During the maple syrup season – happening currently – over 1,300 students come to help. They typically tap around 100 trees at the park. Those tapped trees produce around 1,000 gallons of sap.

Where to go The community will have a chance to tap a tree and fill up on breakfast foods covered in maple syrup at the Baylor Regional Park annual Maple Syrup Festival on March 18 from 1-5 p.m.

The day includes guided tours of the Maple History trail, maple syrup and sugar demonstrations from the 1800s and 1900s, and tree tapping demonstrations.