We invite you to visit... In 1880 the site that was to become Glenwood City was a tranquil glen (valley) in the midst of huge forests. By 1885-1890 with the coming of the railroad and the lumber mills, Glenwood was the major trading center of the area with a population of 2000.
English walnut trees can be tapped successfully, especially when subjected to a freezing winter and spring. Paper birch (Betula papyrifera) The paper birch has a lower sugar content than sugar maple (less than 1%), but is the sweetest of the birch trees.
We have one old tree that is hollow and had one tap in it last year and 2 this year. It doesn't produce a lot of sap, but you can have healthy trees that don't produce much too. The first hole we drilled this year was 2 inches and that was too deep, went all the way through, but still has some sap coming out. I have a tree my cousin wanted tapped and half of one side is rotted away and the one tap on the good side is producing as well as his other trees.