Week of February 20, 2017

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Lee Kinney of Kinney's Sugarhouse in Knox uses a mallet on Friday to tap a sanitary health spout into a maple tree to connect it to a mainline tube for maple sap extraction. All told, Kinney's Sugarhouse has approximately 8,500 taps to trees on the 180 acres it owns in Knox. (BDN PHOTO BY JOHN CLARKE RUSS)

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Lee Kinney of Kinney's Sugarhouse (cq) in Knox uses a mallet to tap a sanitary health spout into a maple tree to connect it to a main line tube for maple sap extraction. All told, Kinney's Sugarhouse has approximatley 8500 taps to trees on the 180 acres they own in Knox, Maine. Photographed Friday, Feb. 18, 2011. " We're expecting a good season [for maple syrup production] because of the cold winter and lots of snow and that's what maple tree's like, " he said. He said each tree tap can provide a third of a gallon of maple syrup once the water is removed through reverse osmosis and boiling. (BDN photo by John Clarke Russ)