Mercedes Wilson and Emily Lampa took a road trip to Attica, New York to visit the Merle Maple Farm for Maple Syrup Weekend. They talked with Lyle Merle, and Eileen Downs, partners, Merle Maple Farm.

The small hole in the maple tree's trunk was welled with water, almost as if it was about to cry. But as the tap settled into the bark and Doug and Ruth Welch explained this sugary ritual doesn’t hurt ...

Maple sugaring — or syrup — season is approaching, and soon enough you'll notice buckets clinging to maple trees as hobbyists and commercial operators begin collecting the sweet sap to make maple ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Wild late winter temperature swings make one type of Northeast Ohio gardener happy: maple sugarmakers, who harvest sap from maple trees for a few weeks in February and March and ...

The buckets still smell like vinegar. The buckets we use to collect maple sap every spring still smell. They’ve been washed repeatedly and used for years, yet they still retain the distinctive odor of ...

St. Joseph County, Ind. (WSBT) — Maple syrup season is highly dependent on the weather and this winter is providing a head start. There is only a 4-to-6-week window that tapping can happen on maple ...

Bruce Hopper, owner of Pure BS Maple Shack in Auburn with his wife, Maria, is a jolly gentleman who brings jugs of maple syrup to his neighbors in exchange for allowing him to tap their glorious sugar ...

FRANKLIN COUNTY, Idaho (KIFI) — On a steep hillside beneath a canopy of scarlet leaves, University of Idaho Extension educator Bracken Henderson, Franklin County, searched for the perfect copse of ...

Paul Hartschuh is a son of Marvin and Hattie. Marvin was the first generation to make maple syrup on his Lykens Township farm on Ohio 103. They had six children, but only Paul, Dwight and Ivan were ...

THE production of maple sugar and syrup is a major industry of Vermont. According to official estimates, in a normal sugar year it amounts to nearly 20 per cent of the total agricultural products of ...