It was a successful weekend for Maple farmers. Maine Maple weekend brought folks out looking for a sweet treat. Every year ...

What keeps local maple producers going year after year, despite the intense work and unpredictable weather?  They are ...

Explore outdoor offerings in early spring, from migrating birds at Nichols Arboretum to mindfulness hikes at Waterloo State ...

Consider these choices in the coming weeks as another maple sugar haul is born in New England and heads out into the world.

In early spring, a reddish haze appears in the woodlands. With most deciduous trees still dormant, the red maples are living ...

Catch it if you can, it doesn’t last long. Finding itself at the mercy of Mother Nature, and reliant upon a narrow sliver of ...

Trees are master multitaskers. No duty is too daunting or tedious for these sky-scratching organisms. From soil stabilizers ...

The art of making maple syrup dates all the way back to the 1600s, when Native Americans first discovered the sweet magic of ...

As new businesses open their doors, the impact of new and potentially larger tariffs is putting the focus on the next generation of tree-tappers.

It takes 40 gallons of tree sap to create one gallon of maple syrup. The formula might come from science, but the result is pure magic, especially to Vermonters, who’ve been tapping and sugaring ...

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Sap drips from a tapped maple tree. Jerry Holt •[email protected] (Jerry Holt/The Minnesota Star Tribune) ...