Did you know that although Europeans knew how to tap trees, it was the American Indian who discovered how to make maple syrup? (Around 1660) The sap was considered to be a fortifying drink… justly, because birch sap contains fructose, glucose, fruit acids, amino acids, vitamin C, potassium, calcium, phosphorous, magnesium, manganese, zinc, sodium and iron. All substances of the sap are digestible by human body (unlike most parts of the tree – containing cellulose: not-digestible). There are also numerous accounts of the mountain people [Montagnais], who eat the inner bark of the maple to combat hunger during a famine.
Read more about Trees That You Can Tap (for Sap and Syrup) this Spring
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