It's Sap Season, and Michigan ranks 5th in maple syrup production in the United States.
In Ann Arbor's "Greenbelt region," an area of protected farmland, there is a multi-generational family-owned farm which is busy this time of the year making syrup.
I take you from sap to syrup to store to explain how what comes from an old local tree ends up on your pancakes...
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