Have you always wanted to try tapping maple trees on your property so you could make your own maple syrup? Then you’re in luck because maple syrup season is almost here. You may have noticed buckets ...

Forester and maple syrup expert Steven Roberge places a lid on a bucket collecting sap in his Peterborough backyard. It’s maple season in New Hampshire, and it’s not too late to become a maple ...

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 ...

Mark and Susan Lockwood have made a hobby of tapping maple trees on their Seekonk property each year for the past 24 years. In a homemade evaporator, gallons of sap are boiled all day long at the end ...

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 ...

Sign up for the Gazette's morning newsletter and get essential news each day. Plenty of young kids tap a few maple trees, inspired by the sweet promise of maple syrup ...

FUNKS GROVE — There are several ways to spruce up your cooking. One is maple syrup, a product of boiled maple tree sap that is tapped this time of the year at a farm less than 12 miles southwest of ...

SOMERSET, Pa. – Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture Secretary Russell Reading drilled a small hole into a tall maple tree Saturday in Somerset and inserted a wooden tap. Moments later, sap that ...

Even though Somerset County is in the heart of winter, maple producers are already celebrating the oncoming spring. The annual Somerset County Maple Producers' Association tree-tapping ceremony is at ...

Interested in maple syrup making? MSU Kellogg Forest hosts a volunteer orientation Jan. 14. Discover hands-on roles for the ...