I love it when the beauty industry 'discovers' something that bushcrafters have known about for a couple thousand years.

Now we are the mosquitos

Tapping a cold one with the boys

I have learned years of experienced information in 1 night watching your videos. THANK YOU!

The soft stuff in the center of the branch is called pith.

Birch trees have less sugar in the sap vs maple.....very good to consume. I use the same spiels for this tree as I would for my maple trees. And birch trees have a heavier sap flow vs maple trees...about 1% sugar in the sap vs 2-5% in the maple trees...the sugar varries from tree variety and the season weather there is a drought or not in the fall previous to the spring harvest.

you make me wanna go outside and start cutting into trees lol

2:20 you can hear a Broadwing hawk call. Nice

I have a lot of yellow birch on my property. Thank you for teaching me this technique.

I've wanted to eat something made from yellow birch since I was a kid - always loved the smell but never knew it was edible. I'm definitely going to try this next spring. Thanks for the info!

New subscriber here. I live in the northeast of the us and I plan to try tapping my own birch sap/water soon! Also making white pine needle tea. My mother didn't nickname me nature girl for no reason though I'm 27 now. ☺️🌲

Good on you Man. Excellent video from you, thank you. From, a fellow woodsman in The States.

This guys videos are great really informative

You make excellent quality videos!

In Alaska, I visited a company that made birch syrup (consistency like maple syrup, but with a very different birch flavor) and supposedly it is the largest birch syrup producer in the United States.

Oh, that sweet sappy goodness.

now that's all natural!!! great video!!

Very interesting. Thank you!

I love white Birch trees! I enjoy stepping on shed bark

Cool video....thanks for sharing ! Thumbs up and sharing it. ENJOY....THE SIMPLE LIFE

Excellent! Hope to do this some day!

Hey, Found your chan and its amazing. I love going out in the forest to do the same exact thing. I also tap Paper Birch trees every year, I harvest about 50 gallons from rotating trees every other year, and then freeze the sap. I have not made any syrup yet. but my end goal is to make syrup then distil it :) thanks for sharing , keep it up ..

great video am going to try thanks shaz

In Soviet Russia, trees drink YOU.

Thanks for this! Excited you came out with this video before Alaska starts to thaw :0D Just in time to give it a go up here!

Great vid! Looked like a nice time all around!....Ben

Spring Turkey season in Missouri is a full camo deal with calls, shotgun or bow, yep I know a couple guys been hit with shot LOL only young kids and city folk make the mistake of sound shots and sometimes carry a buzzard out LOL. I just go where turkey are and start sneaking in a ever expanding circle , i sometimes pass hunters who never know I'm there and eventually 1-3 hours I sneak right into a bunch of turkey. I move very slowly when the wind blows leaves and if I don't create a sound pattern and if I can't hear me -nothing else is putting it together either, don't got to worry about sneaking up on a birch tree so I'm going to start collecting sap tomorrow.

The taste of spring. Man I hope so. LOL

Great vid!👍👍👍

you are amazing and awesome!!

Thank u for showing us the edibles.

THANKS the Great info. .

Drinking the blood of trees... brutal. :P

Very enjoyable and informative. For Fahrenheit to Celsius, 1 C° = 9/5F° or 1.8F°. It was taught to me as 9/5 so it’s easy to see ea. 9F°=5C° exactly as follows: 0C=32F, 5C=41F, 10C=50F, 15C=59F, 20C=68F, 25C=77F, 30C=86F, 35C=95F, 40C=104F. These as the whole number equivalents. The sub-freezing equivalents then follow as: -5C=23F, -10C=14F, -15C=5F, -17.78C=0F, -20C=-4F, -25C=-13F, -30C=-22F, -35C=-31F, -40C=-40F. Only at -40 are Celsius and Fahrenheit equal. Celsius Times 1.8 plus 32 = Fahrenheit. Fahrenheit minus 32 divided by 1.8 = Celsius.

Very good video,s Thanks!

very resourceful young man

Hi - in Poland we tap white birch juice in spring, very healthy and tastes like plain water. But it's full of minerals and vitamins, after all that's the fluid that will produce the new leaves. Give it a try.

Good stuff! Thanks - Martin

Aww your the most adorable man your wife is a lucky gal

you know in east Europe birch juice is something very loved and people Especially children drink it for hundreds of years

You can carve a hook on the tap stick and hang a jar of it.

I live in ohio,got to try this !!! Thank you !!!!

This is (or at least was) really popular in Russia

I have the same axe. It's awesome.

Interesting To Note, Thxs., Merci.

Great Video Subscribed

Just subscribed. Awesome videos

With the type of plastic water bottles he was using... why not just poke a small hole in the bottle towards the top and affix over the stick; save the trouble of having to makes sure everything is lined up properly.

Just remember never to tap the same Birch tree (or any tree) twice in a row, at the very least give it a year to recover or you could kill it.

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New fan ... love the videos..can you tap any trees ..fr Nova Scotia 🇨🇦

Wow I want to try this

Wish we had trees like this here in Florida.

can you tell us through out the entire world what Trees in and out of the USA that we can eat and what to look for what kinds of barks to look for and leaves that may be look the same but be very different as well as barks and how to prepare them ?

was there a difference between the two?

You mention the different temperatures providing different flows of sap based on tree type. Is there a good source to find this information you would suggest? Secondly, do those temperatures apply to the flow in both the spring and fall in the case of the yellow birch you are tapping?

We love a vlogger

I remember we use to eat sap

What is the shelf life, and best way to preserve it for later dates.

Good to know

Where in the US is the foraging taking place? I'm in the Northeast and habitat looks similar. Very well produced and incredibly informative. Thanks.

In Canada, the First Nations people would harvest birch syrup. The early Ukrainian settlers would also harvest the birch syrup.

Really enjoyed your dideos.. new sub here. We're going to try making some yellow birch syrup as well as some maple syrup.. maybe we'll video it for our channel to share too.

But would this work with regular birch too? I would realy love to try some birch sap, but we don't have yellow birch where I live.. please answer.

I had no idea you could tap birch trees. We have more than enough here on my reserve.

birch beer is very good.

its the birch that gets the paper cuts today!

Is the yellow birch the best birch to tap or do they all have good flavor and health benefits ? Also, where are you located ? I'd like to find the geography of where yellow birch grow. And, do you also harvest chaga mushroom off these yellow birch ?

amezing

do you think the hight of the tap will have any impact?

We have a few pine trees coming down near me. can I extract the sap from the tree/ how? I don't have much time to get the sap out and the trees will not be salvaged so if the best/ fastest way to get the sap is destructive it won't matter. Please let me know if you have any advice.

we used to do this as kids

I can't tell a birch from a poplar from a maple just looking at the park

What is the most effective way to store Yellow Birch sap? How long will it last? Thanks for awesome content!

Now how do you get it to be clean without anything being or going in the bottle.

Hi, could you the scientific names for your yellow and white birch? I'd like to know if that's a different common name for what we call silver birch (betula pendula) here in Scotland. I'm really interested that the temperature is an indicator, I've only hear that it's the 2 weeks before the buds come out so it's often trial and error. It would be great if I could have a more of an idea exactly when it would be based on air temp. Thanks for this video :)

I know sugar maple since we have aplenty in Quebec. I will have to try the other kinds of sap. I tried the Norwegian maple sap and nope, it taste like vegetables with a sweetness in it. Birch I suspect to taste better. Yellow birch I dunno, I have worked with that wood a lot and... sometimes it smells like piss.

Will any birch work like here in VA , all we have is river birch , similar trees

One day I had to eat my hand

I'm probably seeing things , but it's that a doe under the shrub to the right of the birch tree at 2:31 - 2:34 ? Really enjoying your videos!

it takes two days to fill up one bottle the other one is water from the tree

is it wise to be in the woods during hunting seasons?

For how long can you store it before it goes bad?

Very Good Video ! I have never heard of tapping the yellow birch , but only heard of tapping the white birch , Thanks ! An old hermit I use to know always made birch beer , from the buds, and real honey . I'm Not much of a beer drinker , but I was always up for one of his , all natural home brews . Looks like you need some snow , I'm willing to share : ) , have over 3 feet here .

Could you boil this down for syrup too?

You need to write a book!

Can you do this with any birch ie silver and brown?

So are you able to tap white birch or just yellow?

nice video thankyou. My question is can the sap be stored for any length of time?thankyou

I always thought sap would be much thicker

Can this be done with river birch?

p.s. angle of the drip stick might be to flat... angled more downward would speed up the drip probably. Love your videos!

I did tap for maple sap and made syrup but have no birch trees to tap....walnut trees can be tapped too.

can you drink any tree sap? l live in southern cali

Hello I'm just curious what white birch trees can be used for

In finland xylitol is used in chewing gum and toothpaste!

I would love to try this! Does it work with Paper Birch too? If so, is the flavour similar?

It would take a lot, but could you condense it into a sweet syrup like maple?

Can you make it into syrup?

almost cabin building time!!!!!