The maple syrup is not so well-known as UConn’s ice cream… but it should be! At the end of each winter, members of the UConn Forestry and Wildlife Club bring out the taps, buckets, and tubes to collect maple sap. They bring it to the sugar house and boil it down to make syrup. Uconn has a few stands of forest dominated by sugar maples (Acer saccharum), and we call these “sugarbushes”. Sap is collected on these locations, boiled down at UConn’s own sugar house for teaching others about the process, and of course for the production of delicious forest products! If you happen to catch our syrup for sale at a CAHNR pop up shop or other event, know that all the proceeds go back into the stewardship of the UConn forest.