Heart to Hearth Cookery

Measuring the Maple

For both the maple tree to flourish and nourish its branches and humans to have maple sap for maple sugar requires limiting the amount of sap taken from one tree.  Pictured here is myself and a staff member from the nature center at Genesee Country Village and Museum measuring a maple.  The method they employ is for every 10 inches in circumference of the trunk-one tap (one spile).  This maple is more than 20 inches and two taps will be placed to collect sap.

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