A leaf-shaped bottle of maple syrup beside a dish of maple syrup and a honeycomb wand - Pixel-Shot/Shutterstock North Americans know that when the days grow warmer and the evenings stay cold, it's ...
After the harvesting process comes the real work of maple sugaring, which is concentrating the sap into delicious maple syrup. Commercial producers use reverse osmosis, and Kinnan says he is ...
Every spring, maple producers across New England begin collecting sap from sugar maple trees and boiling it down into syrup, often using the same methods that have been employed for centuries. Don't ...
Maple syrup is nature's nectar, but you've probably noticed that the real deal comes with a high price tag. Given how much ...
The maple syrup season was drawing to a close at the start of April 1947, but work was still underway at the Samuel Rosbrugh sugar camp where there were about 1,100 trees tapped in the 33 acre woods.
Many aren't fans of the late winter months, but this is the time of year where mother nature likes to sweeten things up. It's sap collecting season and Maple Sugar Days is happening this weekend in ...
Vermont sugar makers are producing about four times the amount of syrup they were 25 years ago, according to Mark Isselhardt, with the University of Vermont Extension Maple Program, due to a shift to ...
The nights are still cold but days are (mostly) becoming milder. That means it’s time to tap into those maple trees to begin the process of converting the sticky sap into delicious maple syrup or ...
NATICK - It's officially maple syrup season in Massachusetts. "Maple season is about a six-week window from when you tap the tree to when you're done collecting sap from the tree," said Haley Goulet ...
DEERBROOK, Wis. (AP) — Jeremy Solin doesn’t need a jacket right now on his family farm in northern Wisconsin. There’s no snow blanketing the dead leaves in the grove of sugar maples. There, pails ...
ASHBURNHAM — When Charles Federico and his wife, Tricia, moved into the historic community of Village Lane in Ashburnham four years ago, they did not expect to become maple syrup farmers. Out of ...
See photos of the family-oriented program Magical Maple Trees, focused on teaching the origins of maple syrup, at Piney Run Park Nature Center on Wednesday, Feb. 24. Five-year-old twin siblings Brenna ...