...“I thought that you had to have sugar maple trees to make maple syrup, but you don’t,” Simerly said. “You can use red maples and silver maples-even birch trees and walnut trees-and all of those trees grow in this area.”
Maple syrup season generally begins in late winter and runs through early spring. Fickle winter weather is the key: The best time to tap trees for sap is on days when the temperature is below freezing at night and above 40 degrees in the daytime.
“I don’t know how far south you can do this because it has to get below freezing at night,” Simerly said. “There are very few people who do this in this area: My brother and I do it, and I saw one other guy in our area with a bucket on a tree. I’ve talked to some people at a local hardware store, and they say that every now and then someone calls to see if they can buy a tap.”...
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