Buckets hang from maple trees at the Jay C. Hormel Nature Center collecting sap for maple syrup. Eric Johnson/photodesk@austindailyherald.com

buckets hang from maple trees at the Jay C. Hormel Nature Center collecting sap for maple syrup. Eric Johnson/photodesk@austindailyherald.com

Smoke rises from the Sugar Shack at the Jay C. Hormel Nature Center as maple sap undergoes the process of becoming maple syrup. Eric Johnson/photodesk@austindailyherald.com

Freshly bottled jars of maple syrup are placed on shelves at the Jay C. Hormel Nature Center. Eric Johnson/photodesk@austindailyherald.com

Banfield Elementary fourth-graders spread out to collect maple sap during a visit to the Jay C. Hormel Nature Center Wednesday. Eric Johnson/photodesk@austindailyherald.com

Naturalist intern Alison Jennings helps Banfield fourth-graders with the collection of maple sap Wednesday morning at the Jay C. Hormel Nature Center. Eric Johnson/photodesk@austindailyherald.com

Banfield Elementary fourth-grader Margarita Garcia-Lopez poors collected maply tree sap into a bucket during a visit to the Jay C. Hormel Nature Center Wednesday morning. Eric Johnson/photodesk@austindailyherald.com

Banfield Elementary fourth graders watch as Teacher/Naturalist Sydney Weisinger and Land Manager Mike Goetz explain how the maple tree sap is boiled down to syrup Wednesday morning. Eric Johnson/photodesk@austindailyherald.com

Buckets hang from maple trees at the Jay C. Hormel Nature Center collecting sap for maple syrup. Eric Johnson/photodesk@austindailyherald.com

buckets hang from maple trees at the Jay C. Hormel Nature Center collecting sap for maple syrup. Eric Johnson/photodesk@austindailyherald.com

Smoke rises from the Sugar Shack at the Jay C. Hormel Nature Center as maple sap undergoes the process of becoming maple syrup. Eric Johnson/photodesk@austindailyherald.com