NATICK - It's officially maple syrup season in Massachusetts. "Maple season is about a six-week window from when you tap the tree to when you're done collecting sap from the tree," said Haley Goulet ...

A leaf-shaped bottle of maple syrup beside a dish of maple syrup and a honeycomb wand - Pixel-Shot/Shutterstock North Americans know that when the days grow warmer and the evenings stay cold, it's ...

As March fills with maple syrup festivals, we come to learn how maple trees aren't at all like factories or franchises. No. The sap they produce and its sugar content — all necessary to boil it down ...

Last March, Chris LaPlante of Rochester discovered that the maple tree in her yard was dripping sticky sap on the family’s car. While some people might be annoyed, LaPlante realized, "We could make ...

We all know that foods like beans and cabbage may give us gas. There is one case, though, where gas gives us food. Fortunately, it’s not the same kind of gas. From roughly mid-February through the end ...

Looking to sweeten a long and bitter winter? There may be a private sweet shop growing in your yard, producing sugary sap that can be turned into maple syrup. Maple sugaring, the process that turns ...

Maple syrup is among one of the oldest commodities produced in the United States. Northeastern Native Americans managed maple groves, tapped trees and gathered sap to make syrup when European ...

SEBEKA, Minn. — Maple sap has been dripping, and in some cases gushing, weeks earlier than normal for Minnesota’s maple syrup producers. The maple woods are normally just waking up and beginning to ...

Visitors to Codorus State Park have the chance to discover how maple syrup is made, from sap to syrup, in free one-hour educational programs offered at the park during the spring season. Those ...

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

Cody Anderson feeds the evaporator fire. This time of year, Something Wild co-host Dave Anderson is busy in his sugar house. He’s trying to keep the sap boiling just as fast as it flows through the ...