Tanner Dravecky, 12, of Boardman, secures taps installed in a tree in the front yard of his home. The youth has been collecting sap since the beginning of March with help from parents Jenn and George.
BOARDMAN Hanging from a tree in the Dravecky family’s front yard is a bucket with three tubes feeding into it.
That bucket has been collecting sap since the beginning of March, a hobby that 12-year-old Tanner decided to take on last year.
Tanner and his peers at Boardman Center Intermediate School watched “Mystery Doug” each Friday in fifth grade science class last year. A question came up about maple syrup: whether it can be ingested right from a tree.