Making maple syrup a hobby that rewards in its own sweet time

It’s the first weekend of April and the city is dotted with icy puddles and shrinking snowbanks. For most Winnipeggers, spring feels imminent. For Jordan Campbell, the season is already in full swing.

"This is the first sign of spring," he says while standing in his backyard, stoking the fire under a blackened pot of bubbling liquid — "liquid gold," to be specific.

Campbell has been making homemade maple syrup for three years. It’s a hobby that started on a whim when he realized the large tree behind his new house in Fort Rouge was a Manitoba maple. All it took to get started was some YouTube research and a few galvanized steel taps and buckets.

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