Maple syrup is a one-ingredient food. Only one thing goes into making it: the sap of maple trees collected in early spring.

Collecting sap from maple trees to make maple sugar and syrup originated with Indigenous people. "The first people known to have manufactured maple syrup are the Native Americans ...

But if you have a taste for maple syrup, you may think of collecting sap from a sugar maple tree. Sugar maple trees produce sap during the summer, which gets stored through the winter in their roots.

But if you have a taste for maple syrup, you may think of collecting sap from a sugar maple tree. Sugar maple trees produce sap during the summer, which gets stored through the winter in their roots.

RICHMOND — It’s not just New Englanders who think the sugar maple tree is special. When Green Berkshires brought a Minnesota scientist to study a threatened stand of these particular maples in Mount ...

Download PDF The “core sugar maple stand is likely to persist in a warming climate,” said Frelich, who specializes in this tree species. “The crown architecture and leaf arrangement of sugar maple ...