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 ...

Ever wanted to make your own maple syrup? With a few tools of the trade and a maple tree in the backyard, you’re just a few easy steps away from coating your waffles and cakes in homemade maple syrup.

From late November to early March, Ella Smoot can usually be found in one of two places: the forest or the sugar shack. Like all maple syrup producers, her winter is a rush of running sap—cold ...

If not for maple syrup, March in Vermont would be all about mud season. Thank goodness that the grey days and muddy roads of early spring go hand-in-hand with one of Mother Nature’s most wonderful ...

Maple syrup is a uniquely North American product thanks to its many sugar maple trees and a freeze/thaw cycle from late winter into spring that allows sap to flow. It is a staple of the American ...

Sugar maple trees don't grow just anywhere. Luckily for pancake and waffle lovers, Pennsylvania and Erie County are within the native range for this species that produces the sap used to make maple ...

ROCKVILLE, Ind. — Tapping maple trees for sugar water and processing it to make syrup is an art that those in Parke County, Ind., celebrate. Because weather conditions must be just right, the folks ...