Well everyone, the 2010 Vermont maple sugar season has started! Actually it’s been going on for a few weeks now. When the days get warm all that stored sap in the maple trees expand inside the tree.

So it starts to pour out of any cuts and holes in the tree. That is why we drill those holes in the tree and collect the sap coming out. We hope the nights are cold. That’s because the tree sucks up more sap to replace the sap it lost during the warm day.

This keeps happening for a few weeks until the maple tree adjust to the warmer weather, and then it no longer has sap running out of it. So far this year it has not been very good maple sugaring weather.

It has stayed warm, so the maple trees are not pouring out a lot of sap. If it keeps staying warm the sugaring season will be all over in a week. But you never know about the weather in Vermont!