Tapping Birch Trees

for nutritious sap and syrup

Collecting a few gallons of sap from birch or maple trees is very cheap and easy to do, and nutritionally/flavorfully worthwhile. Birch sap contains vitamin C, iron, riboflavin, zinc, manganese, calcium, thiamine, magnesium, and potassium. What a wonderfully healthy spring tonic!  We drink it straight, and use it in any recipe that requires water (coff…