Working with (hopefully) large quantities of syrup, adding more as the water boils off, the process can get messy, with boiled-over liquid and sticky residue left behind. Some operators will have a ...

A university in New Jersey is spending a $1 million grant from the US Department of Agriculture on testing the feasibility of a maple syrup industry in the Garden State. Stockton University is in its ...

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 ...

Have you always wanted to learn to tap maple trees to make your own maple syrup? Then you’re in luck because maple syrup ...

FRANKLIN – About a dozen fifth-grade students crowded around Michael DeMain and a 175-year-old maple tree in the forest preserve surrounding the Wehr Nature Center in Franklin, eager to collect sap on ...

Maple sap forms a droplet at the opening of a spile on Feb.23 as the maple syrup season begins in Quasqueton. (Orlan Love/correspondent) Buy Photo The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FRANKLIN – About a dozen fifth-grade students crowded around Michael DeMain and a 175-year-old maple tree in the forest preserve ...