“It’s not something that a lot of people do, but I think it’s becoming more and more popular for people to tap their trees at home.
“People want to stop and ask questions and that kind of thing.
“Last year was one of the worst years on record, so if you’re comparing to last year, this is a boomer year.
If you walk around the northside neighborhood in the northwestern Ontario city, many homes have sap buckets fixed on their trees.
So I decided it was my time to buy my own buckets and get a little set up and do it on my own,” said De Bakker.
“We started off with, I think, milk cartons and little wooden spigots.
After graduating from milk cartons, Henderson said there have been many successful seasons of sap runs, while other seasons were not so great.
“I think that’s what kind of piqued everybody’s interest when they tasted the good stuff, you know.
“It’s fun, it gets us through, kind of the doldrums of spring.