Big Tree Maple sugar house is located in Chautauqua Co., in southwestern New York. Our father and son business began in 1993 by boiling sap from 40 taps, we have now increased to over 800 taps.
Approximately half of these are handled by the "old fashioned" method of using buckets to catch the sap flow; while the other half are done the modern way by using tubing to transport the sap from the tree to the collection tank. On average, it takes the sap from 4 taps for the entire season to make one gallon of pure maple syrup.