Our own New England Maple Sugar

Kevin would drill a hole into the maple trees.
Then we would make sure that we had enough cartons and tubing.

Natalie is tapping the maple tree with a spout to collect the sap.

Carley took a turn.

Brooke and Zack both had a turn.

I was just there to make sure everything ran smoothly... :)

We tapped 7 different maple trees.

The weather has to be just right. 30 degrees or lower during the night and warm up a bit in the day. This releases the sap out of the trees and then it collects in the milk cartons.

We ended up collecting about 3 gallons of sap.

Kevin set up a pot outside and ended up boiling the sap for many hours so it could evaporate down to just the sugars.

It started out a clear color and then eventually turned into a pretty caramel brown.

We started out with the sap in these two comtainers and it boiled down to the maple syrup in the glass jar. This was a great New England experience and we are so glad that we were able to be a part of the process of making our own maple syrup with our own maple trees.