A team of Stockton faculty members is looking for South Jersey property owners who want to produce their own maple syrup from red maples on their properties.

Stockton has been awarded a U.S. Department of Agriculture grant to promote maple sugaring in the South Jersey region using modern technologies such as reverse osmosis, and vacuum assist pumps to implement an extensive sapping system on Stockton’s main campus and an outreach program of traditional sapping methods to be used on individual properties in the South Jersey area. 

The project team is looking for area residents who have access to multiple red maple trees and are willing to invest the time to collect and process the…