From: "John Beamish" 

Good point.

One of V's groups does a charity fund raiser selling maple syrup.
Basically, they tap into trees on a particular wooded lot (it's a long
story but the lot is publicly owned but funds to maintain it are privately
raised).  Here's the best part:  What they are actually selling to raise
funds is commercial maple syrup ... but the people who do the fund rasing
get the syrup that comes from the trees they tap on the lot.  So V buys a
litre container (which she later gives away as a present), works hard at
selling more litre containers to raise funds and then gets a half-litre or
litre (depending on sales) of the syrup that came from the wooded lot.

and get the sap from those trees.

On Sun, 04 Mar 2007 01:18:40 -0500, Geo.  wrote:

> Actually about 16 gal of syrup from early sap.
>
> Geo. (it's more water till the ground thaws better)
>
> "John Beamish"  wrote in message
> news:op.tonfo1jqm6tn4t{at}dellblack.wlfdle.phub.net.cable.rogers.com...
> 800 gallons of sap = 20 gallons of syrup.
>
> On Sat, 03 Mar 2007 18:17:47 -0500, Geo.  wrote:
>
>> "John Beamish"  wrote in message
>> news:op.tokkuj2dm6tn4t{at}dellblack.wlfdle.phub.net.cable.rogers.com...
>>> Sure is.  We hadn't been in this house for more than a couple of months
>>> and we planted a drummondi maple.  Kinda spindly at first ... now it's
>>> well established.
>>
>> Maple huh? I spent the afternoon collecting sap for my neighbors sugar
>> shack
>> (he makes maple syrup from the trees around his house and mine.
>>
>> We collected about oh 800 gallons or so today..
>>
>> Geo. (see attached)
>

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