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Sugaring: Lessons from maple tree

Excerpt: “I started to panic. This wasn’t right at all. This was too much sap, and the color was all wrong. How could the tree be giving this much and still survive? Maybe this was normal? I decided to taste the sap as a scrambled to grab a bucket. “Aaaaah! That’s so bitter!” No no no no! This is bad! What could I do?! Wait…was the tree…shriveling?!”