With careful planning, you can promote growth of sugar maple trees to improve their sap production and net you more syrup.
The video quality isn’t great, but this recording of a presentation by Cornell University educator Pete Smallidge expands on how to make your sugarbush produce more sap.
Sugarbushes need active management (e.g., thinning) to improve growth rates and production of maple sap. This video explains the multiple benefits of planting forest crops like blackcurrants, serviceberries, and blueberries underneath the canopy gaps created by thinning.
