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Easy Birch Tapping

Have you ever seen something so disgustingly simple, and so brilliant at the same time?

Instead of tapping the main trunk of these birch trees, someone has simply sawed off a limb and attached a bag to the end for the sap to drip in to.

It’s a good bit less complicated than the hose and water bottle setup I spied in the forest last year, and it’s much less risky for the tree to have this done on a limb, as opposed to the main trunk.

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#tapping trees

Part of me is squinting all “wtf”, probably cause I’m used to the old metal bucket style from our silver maples. This is definitely thinking outside the box, or bucket, as it were.