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Learning about the maple sugar buckets of yesteryear.
This old bucket was very leaky! |
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Tasting maple sap straight from the source.
Hmmmm, tastes like water (why?) |
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A cut of an old maple tree, showing the holes from many
years of maple syrup tapping. |
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Warming up over hot simmering maple sap after a cold
hike.
We collected our own sap in the white buckets. |
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Demonstrating the way sap was collected in the early
years.
Megan doesn't look like a Cub Scout. |
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Learning about boiling the sap down to make
syrup.
Maple sap is 98% water!
Oh, so that's why it tasted like water! |
