Sugar shacks are typically small cabins wherein sap is collected from nearby maple trees and boiled into syrup. This ...

Here at the College of Environmental Science and Forestry's Heiberg Forest, we tap the sugar maple trees by boring a small hole in the trunk ... of wood for every 15 gallons of syrup we make. The sap ...

They built a small evaporator, which boils down the sap, with cinder blocks, and students and staff have used turkey fryers ...

Maple syrup and maple sugar are among the oldest agricultural products in the United States, and until recently have strictly been a sideline farm crop in many areas. But with the use of tubing, ...

Conservation naturalists have been making maple syrup in small batches at Krumm since ... whole ambiance of the place,” Oldsen said. The evaporator setup came from funding through the nonprofit ...