You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Recently, you may have noticed metal buckets protruding from tree trunks or ...

The real work begins after you hang the buckets. You have to check them regularly, empty them into a larger storage container, then — when you have enough — start the boiling process. Ava Atchley of ...

Kate Weiler and Jeff Rose co-founded Drinkmaple. "People have been drinking maple water from buckets on sap farms for hundreds of years," Weiler says. "We like to say that the un-trendiest beverage is ...

Mar. 19—FEDERAL DAM, Minn. — Tapping maple trees to collect the sap they produce is perhaps the quintessential rite of spring in this part of north-central Minnesota rich in its source of the tasty ...