Yet another standard to be defined!

[RileySugarbush]

Just when you thought it couldn't get any more confusing, here we go....

Now we need to differentiate between tame and wild trees??????
Free range vs. confined?
Growing vs. not?

I saw this in the local Cub Foods and laughed out loud:

http://www.mapletrader.com/community/attachment.php?attachmentid=1288&d=1266024415

[jr.tompkins]

You have got to be kidding me. Ahh another notch in the liberals belt. Next it will be biodigradable taps! lol

[farmall h]

Ya got to be kidding! Them wild trees are hard to find.:lol:

[wnybassman]

I feel bad for the caged up trees. How abusive!

[Sugarmaker]

Those wild trees are the ones that can jump out from beside the road right into the front of your truck!:)

Man I hope they have been food grade tested!

Maybe WILD can be one of the new fruity syrup flavors?

Casbohm

[farmall h]

Are these only found in Canada? Hope KenWp can give us some history on this elusive "wild" maple tree.;)

[RileySugarbush]

I'd worry it would taste gamey.

[gmcooper]

I think those wild trees have a bit of a "gamey"(sp?) taste. After all being wild they would tend to burn up some of the energy stored in the sugars>

[dschultz]

What's nexted BGH free syrup

[farmall h]

Although, I saw a video on youtube that defines this family farm as producing "organic" maple syrup. I dare say I think they are in VT.

[Dave Y]

As the song goes " people are crazy" and that's the truth!!!

[40to1]

That's too funny!
I don't think this is a liberal vs. conservative thing. I think it's just marketing run amuck.

For the record, I prefer grain-fed trees.

[OGDENS SUGAR BUSH]

this is where the tree huggers come in

[Bemis]

Great to see someone drag politics into a discussion of a syrup label.

[Bucket Head]

The wild tree's are very hard to chase down and get a tap in them, from what I've been told. The domesticated sugar maples come right to you when their called.

Steve

[WESTVIRGINIAMAPLER]

You guys have way too much time on your hands and need a lot of trees to tap and a lot of sap to boil.

[morningstarfarm]

man you have to win a tapping permit in a lottery too...and do not get caught tapping out of season..nothing worse than syrup poachers....

[3rdgen.maple]

Do you traders remember the youtube video posted a few weeks ago about the crazy dude sneaking up on his trees in camo then butchering them with a big tap hole. Me thinks he must have been tapping wild trees. Everything is starting to make sense now.

[KenWP]

This is one of the stupider things I have seen. We have to take a course now to hunt wild trees. It has things in it like proper idenification and how to tell the age and how to measure a trees to determine trophy status and which trees are males and females. Its a long course takes a couple years to take it all in and the test is severe. If you fail they take all your syrup equipment away from you.
Yes the wild trees are gamey tasting. You have to cook them with maple wood to get rid of the taste. The tame trees are way better for taste. It is also illegal to fence in wild trees and of course they don't give as much sap as tame trees do.

[RileySugarbush]

It is also illegal to fence in wild trees and of course they don't give as much sap as tame trees do.

Fence them in! I'm going to fence them out!

Who wants these things messing up the bloodlines (saplines?) of my herd?

Plus they can be unpredictable and dangerous, I've heard tell.

[Haynes Forest Products]

Im thinkin its like the mad cow problem. Remember when they were feeding cow by product back to the cows in their feed? Well what do you think happens when you produce Maple syrup over a wood fired arch using dead maple wood. I think we need the Drs imput

[themapleman54]

This could very well be the end! Remember the wild apple trees in OZ? All those buckets to stuff over our heads , line to wrap around our necks !!!!! Who cares about some little bug{ ALB }

[wnybassman]

I'm waiting for the DVD "Trees Gone Wild".

[red maples]

The wild trees you need to sneak up on...like the survival man says from that awe-some instructional video. :lol:

[BarrelBoiler]

do i care what the trees do at night

[morningstarfarm]

OH MAN...now we have to try to figure out when they are in season too....

[H. Walker]

If some of my wild maple trees jump the fence over onto my neighbor's property could I tap them over there or would I have to chase them back to my place? It's just that I think some of my trees are over on the Government property next door and IF they are mine I would like to tap them!!