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Tapping the trees for maple syrup

Taken at the Purple Woods Conservation Area. They have about 900 taps in the maple trees which is a tiny operation for maple syrup production. All the sap flows through these tubes to a building where it's boiled to thicken it into the syrup that we're used to. Apparently it takes 40 to 50 litres of sap to make one litre of syrup

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Uploaded on April 1, 2007
Taken on March 31, 2007