2020 was the year of baking, home improvement, and other quarantine projects. This year, there’s one more to try: making your own maple syrup. Making maple syrup might seem daunting, but I can ...

Looking to sweeten a long and bitter winter? There may be a private sweet shop growing in your yard, producing sugary sap that can be turned into maple syrup. Maple sugaring, the process that turns ...

Candace Johnson has often eaten the store-bought blend of chemicals and artificial flavors that sells as maple syrup, but she’d never tasted the real thing. So on Saturday, the 17-year-old and her ...

Maple sugaring season has begun in Michigan, offering residents a chance to see how sap is harvested and turned into syrup. Michigan ranks fifth in the nation for maple syrup production, with hundreds ...

FORT DRUM, N.Y. (March 26, 2019) -- The sweetest smelling steam was billowing out of Fort Drum's Sugar Shack on March 23, enticing community members to experience the first of two Maple Days hosted by ...

The maple sap is flowing, which is a sure sign that spring is just around the corner. Learn how maple syrup is made, and maybe even try your hand at tapping a tree, at one of these events around the ...

You might not have noticed, but drop by drop, the first harvest of 2021 has begun. There's more sunlight. Maple trees and their shallow roots break their dormancy, and the sap will be ready to rise up ...

Rivers aren't the only things flowing freely in Wisconsin thanks to the unseasonably warm February. Sap in maple trees across the state has begun its spring surge, sending nature centers, maple syrup ...

Many Michiganders are itching to get out in the sun, and the Metroparks are ready for them. “The sun comes out, they’re ready to get out, and we are ready for them to get out,” said Debbi Cavallaro, ...

When the high temperatures rise above freezing and the daily lows stay below freezing, the sap starts to run in maple trees. On Saturday, April 6, at Maplewood State Park near Pelican Rapids, Minn., ...

I love to be the bearer of good news, and I have a lot of it for you – that is, if you like maple syrup. But first, a little nostalgia. When I was younger, my sister and I used to look forward to cold ...