Comment on HOW SWEET IT IS: The Gift of the Maples by Touch2Touch

Not a silly question — I left out something. There are little wood tubes (well, once they were of wood, now they use plastic tubing and undoubtedly something else) that are inserted into the tree. They are small, and there’s only one to a tree — as you drive by you see the single buckets. The sap inevitably rises, but would not ooze out on its own, these little “spills” guide it out.
And it doesn’t harm the trees at all — they have a 10-month vacation after the last sugaring weekend.