What you need to know about tapping birch trees for sap and syrup

BANGOR DAILY NEWS • February 20, 2021

Birch trees are more than just a lovely, ghostly flora growing throughout Maine’s forests. They also produce a scrumptious sap that can be sipped or simmered into syrup. Making birch syrup has many benefits, for both maple producers, farmers with birch trees on their property looking to diversify or curious hobbyists who want to expand their tree tapping horizons.