As the days warm and lengthen, Ken starts to make maple syrup. The first step is to drill a small hole in the maple tree.
Then he pounds a metal or plastic tap into the tree, and hangs a bucket to collect the sap.
Optimum weather for sap collection is sunny days without wind with temperatures in in the 40's followed by nights in the 20's. The sap will rise in the day and drop in the night.
Once he has enough sap to boil down, Ken empties the buckets into an evaporator and lights a fire to cook the sap and concentrate it to syrup.
It takes about 40 gallons of sap to make one gallon of syrup.
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