The Indigenous peoples of North America had taught the first European colonizers how to tap the maple tree and make maple sugar or syrup.

Carriage Hill MetroPark's maple sugaring program is happening Saturday, Feb. 19 starting at 10 a.m. The event is free to attend and open to the public.

Stephanie Singer (Great Swamp Outdoor Education Center naturalist and teacher) explains how tap a Maple tree. Attendees also learned to how to collect sap, and make syrup over a wood-fired evaporator.

Whether you have a single maple in your backyard or hundreds of different tree species scattered across acreage, you can easily learn how to set up a tree tap at home.

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The Indigenous peoples of North America had taught the first European colonizers how to tap the maple tree and make maple sugar or syrup.

There they got to learn how the process works, to see maple sap tapped from a tree on site, and to taste sap boiled down to true maple syrup. The verdict?

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