Sweet and sticky, maple syrup is the perfect topping for a stack of steaming pancakes. But did you know the thick, brown liquid you drizzle over your breakfast comes from deep inside trees?
“One maple tree produces about a pint of sap,” explains Kim Schmereif. She lives on a family farm in Maine that is almost 300 years old! The Schmereifs have hundreds of maple trees on their farm. They need that many in order to gather enough sap to make syrup. “It takes 40 gallons of sap to make just 1 gallon of maple syrup,” she explains.
Maple syrup is the perfect topping for a stack of steaming pancakes. But did you know this thick, brown liquid comes from deep inside trees?
“One maple tree produces about a pint of sap,” explains Kim Schmereif. She lives on a family farm in Maine. The farm is almost 300 years old! The Schmereifs have hundreds of maple trees on their farm. They need that many in order to gather enough sap to make syrup. “It takes 40 gallons of sap to make just 1 gallon of maple syrup,” she explains.