 Living Pittsburgh, this is Marty Getzinger. I'm here with Living Pittsburgh at Bear Brothers Maple Camp in Somerset County and today what we're going to do is we're going to go do a couple different farms or camps where they're making maple syrup. The maple is running great. Last night we had a nice cool night and as it warms up today the maple starts flowing. So what happens is in the cool nights the maple goes up the tree to keep it alive as the day warms up the maple comes back down and as it's coming back down you'll see us as we tap a few trees today the maple is going to come back down through the tree out the tap and we're going to collect in these buckets. Some of the bigger farms that we're going to see today actually have lines that run from the tree directly into some collector buckets that they then use to boil down into syrup. Well start with the maple tree right? Well to get the sap out of the tree you have to grow a hole in about the size of your little finger and then you have to put a spile in it like this can be wood or metal and you put a bucket on it. The early buckets were made of wood and they called them healers in Somerset County. You know you make winters tree areas that they call them healers and they were made by the local pooper. Now here we do teach a class in the spring on making winters. All right I'm Lynette Ely I grew up on this farm in this Walnutdale farm and my nephew pretty much runs a sugar camp but when we have open houses we like to do some educational things. I'm taking some of the syrup that he has made I put it in this kettle and today I'm taking it up to about 250 degrees which is firm ball. Very shortly I'll be pouring it into this large bowl and we serve it until the crystal till the syrup crystallizes work it down tear the thick little inside of it and eventually end up with a sugar product like this. Thank you for joining us today as we explored the Somerset County maple farms around town. We saw three or four today. We were going to end the day here at the Paul Bunyan sugar camp. Unfortunately they were closed because they had a new family member join their clan today so we hope the best for them and we hope the baby came out well and everyone's healthy and we just want to thank you for joining us. Remember if you liked and enjoyed this video please pound that like and subscribe button. It makes the algorithms on Facebook and YouTube show this video to more people. The more people that see this the more we'll make. Thank you for joining us. Have a great day.