Spring is officially here, and that means one thing for farmers in the Northeast—maple season is in full swing! At Dry Brook Sugar House, the annual tradition of tapping maple trees and collecting sap ...

Maple sugar season is underway in northern Ohio and the future of the sugar maple (acer saccharum) may be in question. Forest or sugar bush maple trees are the source of maple sugar sap used to ...

Penny Courser is used to a full house when she takes on the role of “maple hostess” at her father’s and uncle’s sugar house. But even Courser was surprised a few years ago when a van pulled up and ...

Even though Somerset County is in the heart of winter, maple producers are already celebrating the oncoming spring. The annual Somerset County Maple Producers' Association tree-tapping ceremony is at ...

DEERBROOK (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 already ...

Maple syrup has long been a staple of North American breakfasts, especially across the northeastern U.S. and eastern Canada, where its production originated. It’s made by boiling down sap collected ...

Students in Michigan Tech's College of Forest Resources and Environmental Science are tapping into seasonal experiences found in thousands of acres of University-owned forests and coming out with ...

The typical timeframe for gathering sap from tapped maple trees, at least in my neck of the woods, is March 1 to April 1. This year, however, folks I know in the maple syrup world were tapping their ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Things are about to get downright sappy at Hale Farm and Village. The deep freeze and quick warmup has provided the perfectly ...

This story was originally produced by The Keene Sentinel. NHPR is republishing it in partnership with the Granite State News Collaborative. The thick aroma of boiling sap and maple-scented steam ...

Steam is puffing from the tall, metal stack on Couture’s Sugar House in Westfield, Vermont – a smoke-signal invitation to stop in, learn how maple syrup is made, speculate about the weather, and ...