PRIOR LAKE, Minn. - In a so-called normal year, maple sap season would be long over and we would be mowing our lawn for the first time in mid-April. But this is no normal year. At Jeffers Pond ...

The maple syrup season was drawing to a close at the start of April 1947, but work was still underway at the Samuel Rosbrugh sugar camp where there were about 1,100 trees tapped in the 33 acre woods.

HUNTING VALLEY, Ohio — It's maple syrup season! Warm days and cold nights following a frigid winter help the sap in maple trees flow, giving us generally four to six weeks of harvest time across Ohio.

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Modern methods of collecting sap for maple syrup may ease the process, but Mother Nature still has the final say on the success of any harvest — especially this year. “It’s been a real warm winter; we ...

Vermont sugar makers are producing about four times the amount of syrup they were 25 years ago, according to Mark Isselhardt, with the University of Vermont Extension Maple Program, due to a shift to ...

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 ...

It’s that time of year when something unique and mysterious happens in nature. You can’t see it or smell it, and you definitely can’t hear it. However, when it’s all said and done, it tastes great. It ...

When Brian Hughes began collecting maple syrup last year, in early March, he had to plow trails through snow that was thigh high. This year, when he started on the last day of January, he was driving ...

Few breakfasts are more satisfying than a stack of fluffy pancakes or waffles generously smothered with butter and real-deal maple syrup (the stuff that comes from trees). However, like many of life's ...