Discover maple tapping at Bendix Woods County Park. Free event Feb. 14 includes drilling, tubing setup, and Sugar House ...

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 ...

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 ...

It’s now that special time of year where temperatures are below freezing at night and above freezing during the day, creating the perfect conditions for naturalists and hobbyists alike to collect sap ...

Environmental studies professor James Skillen is no stranger to maple syrup. When Skillen attended Cornell University in New York from 2001 to 2006, he took part in their Sugar Maple Research and ...

With an unusual weather pattern this winter including warmer than usual temperatures, sugar farmers have been able to get an early start on their sugar tapping this year. But what goes into a season ...

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 ...