Speaking of becoming more food secure – make your own sweetener!

Adam is in the southeast part of Tennessee, so it may start to look like spring there someday soon. It will be a couple of months yet before anybody will be tapping trees in my area!

He is tapping a hickory tree, but I have also seen some folks in Alaska who have tapped birch trees and made syrup from the sap.

I have never done this, but I did at one time have a relative (actually a step relative) who had a maple “sugar bush” in Ontario and made and sold syrup and maple candy. The process looks like work, but the end product is delicious!

If you are interested in doing this, here is more information:

How to Tap Trees and Make Syrup in Your Backyard