>>6792531its very healthy, and you can use it for all kinds of baking, tastes delicious, of course its basically sugar water with a taste of maple
you can also make birch syrup, but its more difficult (need alot more sap) but birch syrup is considered very expensive and served only at worlds finest restaurants, the make it in alaska, the birch only runs for six weeks a year, so you have to time your season very carefully
>>6792532if you dont make a very deep hole, and save the plug, the tree will live. its a bit of an art to making the correct size hole at correct depth
also can only do it when the sap is "running" . so basically what that means is there are times of the year (in winter/spring) when the tree is sending alot of sap up ... thats when you tap it, the season only lasts a couple of months
but mainly canadians do this to escape starvation due to liberal economic policies
i cannot afford to work for four hours to buy a single fucking steak!
