Maple syrup starts with sap. It takes around 40 gallons of sap to make just one gallon of syrup! Collecting sap is a lot of work. We need to go to every tree and unload the buckets of sap into five gallon pails which we then take to a large crate on a tractor. It later gets taken back to the sugar shack, filtered, and boiled. We had around 250 buckets to empty just about every day this year! 

Boiling the sap takes quite a long time. During this process all the water is taken out of the sap and we are left with the sticky sweet substance we know as maple syrup.