#maple sap

[julesofnature]

“A sap-run is the sweet good-by of winter. It is the fruit of the equal marriage of the sun and frost.” 

-John Burroughs, Signs and Seasons, 1886

[purplespacekitty]

no because what really terrifies me about Stardew is that the fucking maple trees produce syrup year round. forgetting the fact that they produce syrup without you having to boil sap to make it, maple trees just shouldn’t be able to do that. they have different growth functions that operate at certain times of year as they cycle through the seasons and sugaring season is only for a small window of time between winter and full-fledged spring. too cold and the sap won’t thaw. too warm and the tree starts diverting energy to budding, which means all the sugar you find in the sap during sugaring season is going towards leaf growth. little to no sugar = bitter yucky syrup/no syrup. for sap to keep running, you have to have days just above freezing (32-55ish degrees F) and nights below freezing (anything below 32 degrees F). which means this is either how Pelican Town is year round or something else is afoot. and those maple trees would never have leaves if their sap was always sugary enough to be boiled into syrup, which means they would like die within idk a week? a month? without photosynthesis. they simply could not sustain themselves unless they had some other magical mechanism performing cryosuction for them while they also grow leaves and photosynthesize in the warmer months. and they’d need so much more fucking sugar. what are these trees, living thermoses? i just. i get it, it’s a game. but climate-wise, what in the fresh fuck.

[paulpingminho]

[durotoswrites]

Maple tapping season is well underway, and we’re hoping to produce even more liquid gold than last year.

Here’s a bit of the final product from last year, but we still have a few gallon jugs of tree sap in the fridge ready to continue boiling down!  It’s been leaving the house smelling like a bakery, and I’m so excited to see how much syrup we get this year!

My husband and I have been excited to try different recipes with the syrup, including spiced mead and maple candy!

We’re planning to make bigger steps towards producing our own food.  I’ll keep y’all updated on the goodies we make and the plants we find and veggies we grow!

[clinging-to-the-bars]

a gray squirrel licking maple sap from a tree branch

[thekween]

Put up 11 taps at my place of employment!!! Maple season has officially started for me! 💕 Looking forward to the long hours of devotion for the sweet success of Maple Syrup! This will be my first year collecting sap with snow on the ground 😳 the trees tapped deeper in the forest will prove quite challenging til the snow is thawed. Tomorrow I go to my friends house to put up another 12 taps!! Stay tuned for updates!!

[plantparenthood]

drip drip 

[mudwerks]

Library and Archives Canada

A young boy takes a sip from a bucket of maple sap / Jeune garçon buvant dans une chaudière d’eau d’érable