Buffalo, NY -- The latest warm up is causing the Maple tree sap to start flowing and in some cases a little earlier than normal. At the Sweet Dream Maple Farm in Corfu, they're tapping the trees this week to get that sap.
"We are able to tap about 1200 trees," Al Stein, owner of Sweet Dream Maple Farm, said.
Stein says the sap then goes into a large evaporator to make the syrup where they can evaporate about 100 gallons an hour. And it's the perfect temperature combination right now that's getting the sap flowing.
"As long as we have freezing nights and thawing days and the leaves aren't on the trees, the sap will run and we want to try and collect as much as we can," Stein explained. "Maple weekend is the last two weekends in March, we are getting ready for that... we want a long drawn out spring where we have freezing nights and thawing days... we can produce a longer season of maple."
