maple syrup

The Minnesota DNR has several opportunities throughout the month of March to learn all about maple syruping, but sessions can fill up fast so you'll want to register now.

There are several opportunities to learn how to make your own maple syrup, the first of which are this weekend!

I was recently driving around the Northland and noticed several trees tapped for making pure maple syrup. My first thought was that it's too early to be doing that, so I decided to do a little research and I quickly discovered I was wrong.

Warmer temperatures mean that Minnesota's maple syrup season is likely to start earlier than previous years.  This is great news to some people and for others it doesn't mean anything because they don't know how to make pure maple syrup. That could change, thanks to the Minnesota DNR.

Kevin Koen has been making maple syrup for the past 30 years.  Ten of those years have been in my hometown of Wrenshall.  Amazingly, it takes 40 gallons of sap to make 1 gallon of syrup.  Kevin and his friends spend hours upon hours boiling sap to perfection, making delicious hand-crafted maple syrup.

Kevin Koen has been making maple syrup for the past 30 years.  Ten of those years have been in my hometown of Wrenshall.  Amazingly, it takes 40 gallons of sap to make 1 gallon of syrup.  Kevin and his friends spend hours upon hours boiling sap to perfection, making delicious hand-crafted maple syrup.

I have a friend that WILL NOT eat maple syrup, unless it was harvested fresh from trees in the Northland.  I use to think she was nuts, but after trying the fresh maple syrup, it's hard to go back to commercially processed syrup.  The taste is so much richer!  You never really think about WHERE Maple syrup comes from, until the weather could be detrimental to getting it fresh.  Here's what the MN