Ordered the taps off amazon at 28 bucks . Gonna have 4 taps with buckets , they say days like today where its cold in the AM and warms up into the 50's are days where the stuff really flows .
First time tapping maple trees , seems easy .
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That store stuff won’t taste the same as my eastern Ky stuff 
It’s where someone is such a tree hugger that they “tap” any tree with a hole.
When lived in rural western MA a couple of winters, there was a boiling shed a mile or so away where area folks brought their sap to be cooked down.
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Maple syrup production in KY seriously began during WW2 when sugar rationing was implemented. Production slowly evolved over the years into a cottage industry. Season is limited, but returns are growing. UK College of Agriculture took lead SME several years ago. Couple producers around. I researched the subject extensively because my cousin and his son own several acres land with maple trees.
Good luck.
Maple syrup production in KY seriously began during WW2 when sugar rationing was implemented. Production slowly evolved over the years into a cottage industry. Season is limited, but returns are growing. UK College of Agriculture took lead SME several years ago. Couple producers around. I researched the subject extensively because my cousin and his son own several acres land with maple trees.
Good luck.
There’s a place just a few miles from here that does that. You just have to pay him in Sudafed. I guess he has chronic runny nose.
Co worker did this a couple of weeks ago. Brought some in. Surprising it tasted really sweet. The clear color was strange. Expected the color to be brown like store bought. In Addition I watch a episode of this on Tim Farmers Kitchen. Pretty cool.
Google it. Food does not come from a store despite what some think.
Make sure you use protection and always pull out.
We don’t have maple trees here, pecan mostly and the palms and pine but had no idea you could bleed a tree
That's corn syrup not maple. Stupid new PC name to boot.
Good luck, there is a fairly good sized maple syrup farm in Lawrence county from what I saw on TV and there is one in Knott or Perry county I think it was. WYMT did a feature on their operations.
You may need more taps though, I think it takes about 40 gallons of sap to make one gallon of syrup.
You may need more taps though, I think it takes about 40 gallons of sap to make one gallon of syrup.