One in every four trees in the state is a sugar maple ... for its syrup and evaluates it on four characteristics: color, clarity, density, and flavor. Maple syrup is then placed into four ...

Collecting sap from maple trees to make maple sugar and syrup originated with Indigenous people. "The first people known to have manufactured maple syrup are the Native Americans living in the ...

“You can tap pretty much any maple tree – silver, sugar – and you will get sap,” said Richard DeVries, the resource manager at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum in Chanhassen. For the past ...