Every spring, maple producers across New England begin collecting sap from sugar maple trees and boiling it down into syrup, often using the same methods that have been employed for centuries. Don't ...

Looking to sweeten a long and bitter winter? There may be a private sweet shop growing in your yard, producing sugary sap that can be turned into maple syrup. Maple sugaring, the process that turns ...

A leaf-shaped bottle of maple syrup beside a dish of maple syrup and a honeycomb wand - Pixel-Shot/Shutterstock North Americans know that when the days grow warmer and the evenings stay cold, it's ...

Before the birds and the bees return, before the flowers bloom and the grass grows, one of the first signs of spring is the return of the sap. Maple sap, that is. Every year around early to mid-March, ...

I love winter and have been hoping for a lot more snow, which we got last week, but only after an unseasonably (record-smashing) warm spell. Much as I love winter and want to stay in the moment, that ...

Jen Berlinghof knows spring has arrived when she hears the plink plink plink of maple tree sap hitting metal buckets and the call of the chickadees. An environmental educator with the Lake County ...

Karisa Maynard checks sap buckets on maple trees Friday in New London, N.H. Tourism officials and maple syrup producers are predicting a banner year this sap season. The abundance of rain in the fall ...

Warm days and cool nights signal spring. It also begins the sap run in trees. Maple producers have begun tapping and boiling to make maple syrup. For the next two weekends Vermont and New York ...

Traditionally sap was collected in buckets hung on trees, but it’s more common these days to see plastic tubing snaking from tree to tree, leading to a collection container or directly into the sugar ...