Feb 2022 Update: Maple Syrup Part 01 
Tapping Trees
If you watch the news you probably saw me talk a little about syrup on an episode recently. Last summer, I attempted to identify some maple trees on our property to try tapping. Being overzealous and probably disproportionately confident in my tree identification skills, I immediately added a syrup kit to my amazon wishlist and forgot about it for months, thinking it would be a fun project ‘for later’.
Fast forward to Christmas, and my sister-in-law got me that same kit. Time to tap! With a week of solid sap-running temps ahead, I went out tonight and started drilling our trees:
Taps are IN:
Already getting a tiny amount of syrup:
I’ve never done this before and I suspect we might not get enough sap from the five taps we have set up, but it’ll be a 
learning experience if nothing else. Once I get a large amount of sap I’ll have to find a way to boil it down to true syrup. Fingers crossed we get that far lol.