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You can out east, but not here,” Peterson said. But he caught on quickly. Each year, Peterson taps about 1,000 trees on his property. It takes about 30 gallons of sap to make one bottle of syrup.

You don’t go to school for maple syruping in Minnesota. You can out east, but not here,” Peterson said. But he caught on quickly. Each year, Peterson taps about 1,000 trees on his property.

Spring is about transformation, a season often marked by its dynamic sights, smells, sounds and tastes. As humans change the climate, our experience of the season is changing, too.

Red maple (Acer rubrum) flowers before its leaf buds break. Some trees bear only male flowers like the ones above, producing no seeds, some only female flowers, and some are monoecious, bearing both.

Trees must reach a certain size before they are ready to tap, no smaller than 10-12 inches in diameter at chest height. Syrup makers usually use one tap for trees 12 to 18 inches in diameter, two ...