Editor’s note: Once a month, OSU Extension Master Gardener volunteers in Franklin County profile a plant that occurs naturally in central Ohio. If you want to add a large shade tree to your landscape, ...

Twenty miles southwest of Cornell’s Ithaca campus grows a forest of sweet trees. The tubing at their trunks carry sugary sap awaiting to be transformed into a crowd-pleasing breakfast staple: maple ...

New Jersey may soon establish a viable maple syrup industry through a new project. Stockton University in southern New Jersey is leading efforts to produce syrup using red maples, which are prevalent ...

Moorhead - The box elder may be the Rodney Dangerfield of the tree world. Dismissed for its irregular form, weak wood and association with box elder bugs, the lowly tree gets no respect. But the ...

Maple syrup is great with dessert, but it can also be used with spices, meat and fish. It has a compelling Indigenous history, too. You’d be hard-pressed to find a food, or anything, really, that ...

It’s now that special time of year where temperatures are below freezing at night and above freezing during the day, creating the perfect conditions for naturalists and hobbyists alike to collect sap ...

Eating maple syrup, instead of more refined sugars, may reduce the risk of metabolic disease, according to a Canadian study. "We know from decades of research that maple syrup is more than just sugar, ...

Candace Johnson has often eaten the store-bought blend of chemicals and artificial flavors that sells as maple syrup, but she’d never tasted the real thing. So on Saturday, the 17-year-old and her ...

No plate of waffles or stack of pancakes would be complete without a side of maple syrup. Whether you use just a bit on oatmeal or French toast or pour it on a bowlful of spaghetti like a certain ...