celebrating maine maple sunday... Every year, on the fourth Sunday of March, Mainers across the state gather to celebrate the flow of sap from the sugar maple trees with Maine Maple Sunday. The sap buckets in the shots above were taken today as I was driving home from the Pineland farmer's market. Maine Maple Sunday is a great time to head over to a local sugarshack and check out how real maple syrup is made... and of course to indulge in some of that yummy amber liquid.
Did you know that it takes 40 gallons of sap to make just one gallon of maple syrup? My husband is learning that firsthand as he heads into his second year of maple syruping. In just five days, he's collected over 40 gallons of sap. Next week he'll embark on a weekend-long binge of cooking down the sap into that precious gallon.
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