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Traditionally, we start making maple syrup in the
middle of February, depending on
when it starts to warm up,
and normally it goes to the end of March
here in Niagara. To collect sap,
we need warm days and cool nights.
As the spring gets closer,
when it gets warm out,
the sap travels up into the tops
of the trees to supply the buds with
the sugar that they need
to
produce leaves,
and that's the perfect time for us to drill that small hole into the tree,
and during that travel of sap up and down the tree is when we actually collect the sap.
It actually takes 40
litres of sap to make one litre of syrup.
We have 5000 trees
and each tree will produce, on average,
1 L of syrup.
So the amount of sap that we actually have to collect is in the hundreds of thousands
of litres of sap
to create the product that we offer for sale.