Maple Syrup

Maple Syrup - Discovered first by hungry squirrels and later by North American Indians, it is rich in minerals and of course, sugar! It takes about 40 liters of sap to boil down to one liter of syrup. Maple trees can grow up to 25 meters high and live over 200 years. There are many varieties of Maple and several are used for syrup. Nowadays the sap is harvested via plastic tubes and vacuum pumps, but in the old days (30 years ago or so) sap was collected via spigots and buckets.