Students in the building trades class at Broome-Tioga BOCES are producing homemade maple syrup — about 50 bottles per year — using a reverse osmosis system they built themselves.

Maple syrup production is underway. We visited a Lewis County sugar shack to learn how sap becomes syrup.

The annual tapping of regional trees is going on now. Two local growers share learned wisdom about how it’s done combining old and new techniques.