1,500: Students who visit the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum’s syrup program on field trips in March and April
1,200: Attended this year’s pancake brunch
390: Tapped trees at the arboretum
20s: Best nighttime lows for sap production
40s: Minimum daytime highs for sap production
95: Gallons of syrup produced by the arboretum so far this year
66.5: Percentage of sugar in the finished syrup
10 to 15: Gallons of sap tapped from each tree per season
30 to 40: Gallons of sap needed to produce 1 gallon of syrup
10 million: Maple trees that can be tapped in Minnesota
219 degrees: The boiling point of maple syrup.
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