Hi everyone. My first post here on the forum. We live on 5 acres in Maple Ridge BC. We have around 50 very large mature Big Leaf Maples on our property that we would like to tap this season for the first time. As far as we know they were never tapped by the original owner of the property.
Can anyone tell me when approximately I could first expect to see sap start to run from the trees in this area of BC. We are in Southern BC, about 45 minute drive from the border of Washington state.
Some of the Maples on our property have very large bases that take off to 4 to 8 other large trunks. Hopefully we can put multiple taps on some of these large trees with multiple trunks.
Our property also backs on to government crown land with a river running through it. There are probably some where between 100 to 200 Big Leaf Maples in only a mile area surrounding our property.
Would any of you know if it is ok to tap Maple trees on crown land that is not privately owned? If possible we would have an endless supply of sap for one family to process
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