Sugar bush

[2] At a traditional sugarbush, all the trees were hand tapped and the sap was boiled over wood fires.

The Anishinaabe (Ojibwe) peoples have been doing sugarbush for generations and consider the process both a part of food and of medicine.

In the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick, Ontario, Quebec and Nova Scotia, and in some New England states, many sugar bushes have a sugar shack where maple syrup can be bought or sampled.

[5] The tapping period ends when the supply of maple sap ceases, as when night-time temperatures begin to be above freezing, or when the tree produces metabolites to facilitate tree bud development (which will give syrup an off flavor)—whichever comes first.

In summer, a healthy maple sugar bush is luxuriant and shady.