#DIY #Homesteading #outdoors DON'T spend thousands on professional evaporators! In this video, I show you exactly how to build a high-performance maple syrup evaporator using a 55-gallon drum and a ...

Mark and Susan Lockwood have made a hobby of tapping maple trees on their Seekonk property each year for the past 24 years. In a homemade evaporator, gallons of sap are boiled all day long at the end ...

How is maple syrup made? Start harvesting maple syrup in your backyard by gathering your maple tree tapping supplies and use these instructions to build a maple sap evaporator from a barrel.

New Hampshire maple producer, Wayne Pike’s old, wood-fired evaporator in his Lyme, New Hampshire sugarhouse, left; and his new evaporator, right. (Jeremy Fowler / Natural Resource Conservation Service ...