Yesterday was the first day of maple sugaring. Andy and all of us strapped on our snowshoes, got bags ready, and headed off to tap trees. Cold, and tripping over our own feet, we snow shoed to the nearest sugar bush. A sugar bush is a group of maples that produce sap used for making maple syrup. First, Andy gave us a demonstration on how to tap a maple tree. Drill the hole, clean it out, tap in a spile with a hammer, and leave the bag underneath to let the sap drip. Then, we went out, armed with a power drill and two man-powered drills and a bucket of spiles. We haven’t been back yet, but all hope that the trees will have yielded some sap.
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