This weekend, and next weekend, you can get an up close look at the process of turning sap into syrup during the annual Maple Weekends, when sugar houses across the state open their doors.

Maple sugaring — or syrup — season begins when the changing temperatures allow sap to flow up and down tree trunks.

Visitors to Dry Brook Sugar House can see the sap-to-syrup process up close, from tree tapping to boiling in an evaporator. It takes about 40 gallons of sap to produce just one gallon of syrup.

Maple sugaring — or syrup — season begins when the changing temperatures allow sap to flow up and down tree trunks.

And every year about this time, volunteers and staff at Aullwood are gearing up for process of harvesting the sap the makes the syrup from the approximately 55 sugar maple trees on the farm.