“And so helping expand their understanding of what it means to manage specifically for maple syrup production is one of the goals.” “Maple syrup is a nontimber forest product-the trees stay for as long as they live-but the people who manage them or provide support on management have more background on the forest products side of things,” says Solin. One of the goals of the Maple Syrup Program is to build knowledge around these differences with foresters and other resource professionals. The management techniques that make quality, easy-to-harvest timber, however, are not the management techniques that make healthy, productive sugar bushes. This may surprise those who have visited tree farms or hiked through pine plantations where trees are planted in neat, uniform rows. “Maples are really good at naturally reproducing, and so the management that happens is more about managing the trees that are naturally there, not having to plant additional ones,” says Solin.
To cultivate a productive and sustainable operation, the trees should plant themselves. His response sounds like the punchline to a riddle: None. It’s a question that Jeremy Solin, coordinator of the newly launched Extension Maple Syrup Program, gets often from those eager to turn sap into syrup. Maple sugar has been used to flavor tobacco.“How many maple trees should I plant in my sugar bush?” Jeremy Solin, coordinator of the Extension Maple Syrup Program, drills a tap into a maple tree. They taught French and English colonists to collect maple sap. When colonists settled in the Northeast, Native Americans bartered with their "bark sugar," maple sugar stored in bark boxes. Maple sugar was the only sweetener used by Native Americans of the Northeast, and they used it to make a sauce for many of their foods. Sugar maple sap contains 2 to 6 percent sugar.
Sap collected from the trees in late winter is boiled to produce a thick syrup. Sugar maple is also valued for the production of maple syrup. The strength of this wood is reflected in the genus name, Acer (Latin for sharp), referring to ancient Rome's use of maple to make handles for spears saccharum is the Latin word for sugar and refers to the high sugar content in this species' sap. Of particular value is maple wood with abnormal grain patterns called "curly maple" and "bird's eye maple." These types of maple have been used to make gun stocks and violins. It is called "hard maple" in the lumber industry and is a popular wood for furniture. Sugar maple has a heavy, light brown, close-grained wood. Leaf colors range from bright yellows to orange and red. Sugar maple is best known for its outstanding fall color that is so characteristic of New England states.
Green Mountain® - Popular drought-tolerant cultivar that has dark, leathery foliage.‘Commemoration' - Has dense, dark green foliage that turns yellow-orange-red in fall 10-14 days earlier than the species.It is fairly tolerant of heat and has good yellow-orange fall color. ‘Bonfire' - Has a round crown and broad, shiny leaves.
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