All are invited and encouraged to take home maple sap from the community sugar bush in the playground on our campus. These trees are tapped each year in order to provide an educational way for the community to try maple sugaring and learn about maple trees. You can take home the sap and either boil it down to make maple syrup or use the watery direct-from-the-tree sap in recipes.

Beginners are welcome to participate. You will need to bring your own food grade container to collect sap. This link will teach you what you need to know about identifying food grade buckets. Washed water or milk jugs work well.

Community member, Jennifer Benson, has put together this helpful video and slide deck which provides all you need to know about collecting sap at Open Spirit and what to do with it once you have collected it. *Please note the sign-up link in the video is not our current link.

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