How To Sustainably Tap a Birch Tree - No Drill or Risk To The tree

What's up my lovers? Hi guys, welcome back. Today we're going to teach you how to sustainably tap a birch tree. We're going to show you a method that's less invasive and doesn't expose the birch tree to any risk of infection. We're going to tap tap the birch tree and we're going to get some delicious sap out of it. We're going to show you this sustainable method so you can enjoy the experience of that sweet birch sap without any of the risk of tree. And we only need two things to make this happen. A knife and a bowl or a cup. So come with us and we'll show you how to do it. Find us a birch tree guys. First thing you need to do is find a big birch tree, preferably quite an old one because they're bigger and they draw all the sap up at the very beginning of spring because they want to bring it up to all the leaves and help them bloom. Now you might see the drilling method where you drill a hole in the tree and collect the sap that way but there's actually a much more easier and sustainable way of doing it. You find a fresh healthy branch coming off the birch tree like that one like this one that's quite big this one you give it a bend to make sure that it's not a dead one like this one and you can tell it's healthy because it has the little leaf buds popping up all around it. So is this a healthy branch little Maddy? Yeah. What we do is you take the branch and you cut along at an angle like that and then you'll see the sap starting to come out. Then all you have to do is hang on your little bowl to catch the sap. There you go. Now we're going to go and play for an hour and come back and we'll be able to enjoy some sweet birch sap. So it's been about it's only been about half an hour but we're going to go see how much birch sap we've got. Let's have a look at the sap. Little bit of sap. Shall we try some? I want to try some. So nice. So this sap is amazing. Are you going to have a little sip? Nice. Full of vitamins and minerals and antioxidants and the spring is springing. I did this, lift my tongue out and then I touched them and it was tasty. It tasted like some... Fresh? I don't know. The sap from the birch tree is so refreshing. If you want to experience the sap, the sweet delicious sap of the birch tree, this is a much more sustainable way of doing it because if the tree did get unlucky and get a fungal infection in the end, it would just simply reject this branch and drop it off. Whereas if you drill into the tree and it gets unlucky and gets an infection that can spread throughout the tree. So if you want to get out and experience it, if you just want to get a bottle, attach it and that will drip all day and then you can experience the birch sap without bringing any power tools to the forest and without putting the tree in any unnecessary risk of infection. So the people in the olden days, the ancient days, as soon as that long harsh winter was over, they'd come out and tap the birch trees because it would give them that well-needed vitamin boost. After spending that unhealthy cold winter locked in eating unhealthy food, the birch tree would just give them such a surge of vitamins and get them ready to enjoy that spring sunshine. And spring is coming, we're so excited. The birch tree is just such a great sign that spring's on its way and there's so many exciting things to forage in the months to come. We're really looking forward to it, we've got so many great ideas and the birch sap has just given me this boost of energy that I've needed today. So listen guys, if you like what you see then definitely subscribe and ring that bell and you'll get informed of our next videos coming up. Also check out our previous videos because there's loads of stuff on there and Brucey in the corner. We've carried him out to the woods, there he is. Oh bless him, he loves it. He was touching the tree earlier, it was so nice. Yeah, so go out, enjoy some birch tap. Yep, and let us know in the comments if you do, we want to know about your lovely adventures with the birch tree. And remember, we love our trees that don't decimate them.