Canada Ping!
Posted on 02/03/2014 10:44:37 AM PST by Theoria
Have you every tried killing a maple tree? When they are cut back, leaves come out of nowhere.
I guess I understand it as a desert, but I’ve seen Americans eat them for breakfast, and that’s just gross.
Canada Ping!
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Interesting article, but the part about the bear was quite a digression.
We made maple syrup every year when we were kids . Mom put it in quart jars and kept them in the root cellar .
We’ve always known the sap came up and , get a clue researchers, the tree stores the starch that becomes sugar in it’s roots and the amount of sap you get depends on the size of the root system .
My maple syrup wine , 17% alcohol, aged a year, almost a liqueur. Not for sale.
I’d say they just pulled the rug out from under the Vermont Maple Syrup industry.
“If the cost of maple syrup were lower, more people would try it—and like it. “
Yes.
It costs too much for most people. It’s better than the imitation stuff, but costs 10 times more.
I had the impression they wanted to brag about seeing a bear.
Seems they could use this method on a big tree by lopping off a mature branch every year and applying suction to it, leaving the tree alive, at least until it is bare.
The sugar comes from the same place it always has, the ROOTS!
That it took this long to learn that is testament to how little we know about everything that matters.
There are those here that will argue to mutual death that HFCS, refined sugar, and honey are all the same.
Some folks are just designed to be led by almighty government, even here. I’ve had discussions that went nowhere on numerous occasions. The last was about HFCS vs refined sugar....
"Hey I saw a bear".
"Now, let me tell you about some new development in maple syrup farming."
Prices would come down - availability would go up. That's one yummy outcome... Thanks Drs. Abby van Den Berg and Tim Perkins... sweet stuff.
You had a conversation on FR that went nowhere? I’m shocked, I tell you. : )
I will admit, though, that I’ve learned so many good things from wise FR people, overall, that I will continue to put up with a certain amount of (insert bovine euphemism here).
Yep. I saw a bear. On MY land.
It was a brag.
Ah, a photo of both double breasted and single breasted sap suckers !
I always buy grade B maple syrup. There used to be a place that had grade C in bulk which was even better and darker. Grade C is my preference
They realized that their discovery meant sugarmakers could use saplings, densely planted in open fields, to harvest sap. In other words, it is possible that maple syrup could now be produced as a row crop like every other commercial crop in North America.IOW, the price of maple syrup will drop, and old-growth syrup will become a marketing gimmick. Thanks Theoria.
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