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Syrup makers toil this winter

Tree cycles disrupted, some consider sitting this year out

By Sarah Schweitzer

 |  Globe Staff  

  March 08, 2012

Across the region, record winter temperatures are wreaking havoc with maple tree systems, forcing syrup producers to tap trunks early in the hope of catching the best, most sugary sap before it disappears with spring. At least one producer in Massachusetts, Turtle Lane Maple Farm in North Andover, has decided not to tap its trees because the warm weather has so depleted the trees’ sugar, making the production of syrup too onerous and costly.

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