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 ...

The maple trees in your backyard are no less loaded with sap than any of the thousands of maple trees being tapped right now on maple farms across much of Pennsylvania and in states and Canadian ...

This story was originally featured on Outdoor Life. There are windows of opportunity in nature, and one of my annual favorites is “sugaring time.” In late winter, tree sap begins to flow, and from the ...

You’d think Vermont’s maple syrup capital would be tucked away in some tiny mountain village, but it’s actually St. Albans ...

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 ...

Mar. 19—FEDERAL DAM, Minn. — Tapping maple trees to collect the sap they produce is perhaps the quintessential rite of spring in this part of north-central Minnesota rich in its source of the tasty ...

Mar. 7—Maple syrup, maple sugar, maple cream, maple coffee. Maple teriyaki, maple sriracha, maple crème brulee. Whether you're planning a getaway for Maple Weekend or just looking to replenish your ...

Don’t be a sap. Tap your maple trees and get that syrup. Spring is right around the corner, so that sweet sorghum is ready to flow. What’s better on pancakes than maple syrup, especially when it comes ...

Stockton University is using $1 million in federal grants to explore whether a viable syrup industry can be created using a species of maple tree common to southern N.J. Ryan Hegarty, assistant ...

Making maple syrup is not as simple as boiling water. It requires drilling into and tapping trees, lots of buckets, tubing, freezing, "sheeting" pans and boiling water. Yes, sometimes, there's even ...

A late March ice storm devastated Northern Michigan's maple syrup industry, causing significant damage to trees and infrastructure. Despite the widespread destruction, the maple syrup community has ...