You won't get sticker shock the next time you buy real maple syrup once you understand how difficult it is to produce this ...

Learn how to tap a maple tree and taste pure, local syrup at the Forest Preserve District of Kane County’s Maple Sugaring Days from noon to 3 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, March 2 and 3, at Creek ...

Nature has much to share with us on the first day of spring, like the clean sweet caramel taste of pure maple syrup. At River Trail Nature Center in Northbrook on Sunday, families were introduced ...

Bruce Hopper has been making maple syrup for 10 years. He taps his neighbors' maple sugar trees along Central Street in Auburn and has close to 200 taps on other sugar maples in other neighborhoods.

I had always assumed that the sugar maple sap for maple syrup comes from the phloem, but I was wrong. When maple sugaring in the spring, we are actually tapping into the xylem, the sugars in this ...

“Maple sugaring is the process of collecting sap from sugar maple trees and boiling it down to make maple syrup or sugar,” said Ryan DePauw, a naturalist at River Trail Nature Center in ...

Maple syrup is famously made in spring, when below-freezing nights followed by warm days cause the sap stored in a sugar maple’s trunk to flow up and out of the tree and into buckets or plastic ...

ANTRIM COUNTY, Mich. , (WPBN/WGTU) -- We're getting sappy as we transition from winter to spring. There's so much that goes into making maple syrup, but the most important factor is weather. The ...

What do you think of when you think of spring? You know spring is near when the days lengthen and the temperature begins to warm. You may think of the robin as the first sign of spring. But if you ...

Jonathan Davis, left, tastes the first run of maple syrup with his father, Steven, right, Saturday, Feb. 24, 2024, in Sturgeon Bay, Wis. Steven Davis, who started tapping 220 trees on his family's ...

As spring gets closer, ... The maple syrup operation at the Sugar Shack utilizes approximately 275 taps to ... To see the whole community and families come out they enjoy to learn about trees.

Collecting the sweet syrup of boxelder trees is the perfect way ring in spring Mitch Thompson of the ND Forest Service teaches readers about how to collect sap from boxelder trees.