4 March 2025
This winter we’ve hated the chilly climate however the freezing temperatures have been good for maple sugaring in March. Chilly because it was, this winter was nearer to what we had earlier than local weather change and the maples in Pittsburgh are pleased about it.
Maple sap runs greatest when daytime temperatures are above freezing and nights are under freezing. When the nights don’t freeze the sap stops working, and the season is over. Final yr the season ended early as a result of it was so scorching.
Audubon Society of Western Pennsylvania (ASWP) has used three strategies to gather sap from sugar maples at a number of of their properties: conventional buckets, baggage, and tubes. Yesterday at Beechwood Farms I might inform the sap was working as a result of the baggage have been filling up.
All instructed, it takes 40 gallons of sap to make nearly 1 gallon of syrup. The sap, which is 2% sugar and 98% water, tastes like frivolously sweetened water, tasty and refreshing, however missing in taste. The boiling course of reduces the liquid till the focus is 65% sugar.
ASWP’s outside Maple Insanity occasions will reveal how maple syrup is made.
To join these occasions go to ASWP’s Program Listings web site.
- Maple for Scouts. at Beechwood Farms 3/8/2025, Succop 3/15, and Buffalo Creek Nature Park in Sarver 3/22
- Hike By means of Maple Historical past: Maple Insanity. at Beechwood Farms 3/15/2025 and three/22
- Sweetest Season
- Maple Drink Tasting, Adults Solely Pleased Hours: Maple Insanity. at Buffalo Creek Nature Park 3/6/2025 and three/13
Sap assortment will finish when the maple buds open. (The festivities will proceed with pre-collected sap.)
How are you going to inform that maple buds have opened? From the bottom the twigs look thick with little lumps. This crimson maple was already flowering at Beechwood. Thankfully it’s not the species that produces good sap.
