You might not have noticed, but drop by drop, the first harvest of 2021 has begun. There's more sunlight. Maple trees and their shallow roots break their dormancy, and the sap will be ready to rise up ...

After the harvesting process comes the real work of maple sugaring, which is concentrating the sap into delicious maple syrup. Commercial producers use reverse osmosis, and Kinnan says he is ...

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 ...

Ever wanted to tap a tree and make your own maple syrup? We’ve got four ways to learn or pitch in. Here in mid-February, maple sap may start to run in little spurts when temperatures rise above ...

Standing next to a maple tree in her front yard, Ramona Snell lifts one of the tree's dull, gray, discarded leaves from the ground. "These are the sugar factories," she says ˆ the place where the ...

With the weirdly cold spring changing normal production schedules, maple syrup producers have had a rough season. But they have a new advantage, too. Instead of relying on buckets attached to trees to ...

Dan Tyler explains how to make small batches of maple syrup from your sugar maple trees. Dan Tyler, Maple Syrup Hobbyist, explains how to tap a maple tree, what equipment you need and how to determine ...

March 21-22, 2026 | Sugarhouses Across Vermont It starts with a tap… A tiny hole in a towering maple tree, the slow, steady ...