Sweet maple syrup season in full swing in Ontario’s sugar bush country [Video]

The first robins of spring have been spotted and maple trees all around the region are groaning with the weight of the delicious, sweet sap inside.

It’s maple syrup season, the sweetest season of them all.

It’s March and that means the longer days and rising temperatures are making way for families and friends to get out and enjoy the harvest right here at festivals and sugar bushes right across Durham Region.

The origin of maple syrup production dates to Indigenous peoples living in the northeast part of North America. Zhiiwaagamizigan. the Anishinaabe word for maple syrup, is prized for both its medicinal properties and sweet taste, with the earliest method of sap collection done by cutting a V shape into the bark of a maple tree, placing a wedge at the bottom of the cut and letting the sap flow into a bucket at the base of the tree.

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