08/19/2026
🌳From Tree to Bottle I Part 1: Tapping the Trees
Ever wonder where a bottle of black walnut syrup actually begins? Right here - with a black walnut tree and a single drop of sap.
When the conditions are right in late winter, with temperatures moving above freeing during the day and back to below freezing at night, the sap begins to flow. That's when syrup season beings for us.
We drill a small tap hole into selected mature black walnut trees, insert a spike and hang a covered collection bucket. Then we let the trees do the work.
And yes - black walnut sap really is this clear!
It's hard to imagine that something that looks almost like water will eventually become the rich, dark black walnut syrup you see in the bottle. But there's a whole lot that has to happen between this first drop and the finished product.
Over the next several posts, we're going to take you along for the entire process - from our trees to the bottle.
Next up: collecting the sap.
🌳Ely Black Walnuts and Syrup
From our trees to your table.
