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03/05/2019 / By Russel Davis

Here’s how to tap maple trees (and make your own syrup)

Tapping maple trees for their syrup makes for a fun family activity, and is a safe and sustainable way of gaining benefits from nature without hurting the ecosystem. Maple trees start to produce sap at the break of spring between mid-February and mid-March. The sap flows best during this specific period, when daytime temperature reaches above […]

05/31/2018 / By Zoey Sky

Beyond wood and bark: Survival materials from trees also include sap, resin, and pitch

Aside from providing us with yummy syrup for our pancakes, did you know that sap, along with resin and pitch, has survival uses? (h/t SurvivalSullivan.com.) When possible, try to gather naturally occurring resin. This means sourcing material from a tree that is already secreting sap instead of intentionally taking sap from an undamaged tree. Take note that […]

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