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 ...

All Wisconsin crops are impacted by the weather, and that includes maple syrup. Maple sap collection involves drilling into mature trees, with modern methods like vacuum systems and pipeline networks ...

Maple syrup producer, Joseph Burkett and his wife, Alethea, have come a long way since experimenting on a graveled driveway with a couple gallons of watery sap in the hopes of producing maple syrup ...

Twenty miles southwest of Cornell’s Ithaca campus grows a forest of sweet trees. The tubing at their trunks carry sugary sap awaiting to be transformed into a crowd-pleasing breakfast staple: maple ...

To young Brooks Watts, visiting from Washington D.C. with his parents Greg and Rachelle Watts and his two siblings, the highlight of the Cunningham Falls State Park Maple Syrup Festival was obvious.

In celebration of Maine Maple Sunday Weekend, I visited Treehouse Brand Maple in Auburn to see firsthand how they make their syrup. Yes, it’s made inside a train replica treehouse. Dan Giguere, the ...

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 ...

TRAVERSE CITY — The 2024 harvest season for maple syrup was short and early, due to warmer temperatures. Even so, Michigan maintained its ranking as #5 in the nation for overall production – at ...