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 ...

A Springfield man has started tapping maple trees on his property in order to make his own syrup and become more self-sustainable. Jesse Crawford has added 10 taps to his five maple trees on his ...

“I have a dozen maple trees at home. I tap those and make about 2 or 3 gallons of maple syrup,” he said. With the efficient evaporator in the nature center’s Sap and Honey House, Wilson can make 2 ...

SILVER CREEK, Neb. (KOLN) - When the conditions are just right, Thomas Hemmer taps plastic spiles into sugar maple and silver maple trees to draw out sap the sap. He uses it to make his own maple ...

This story was originally featured on Outdoor Life. There are windows of opportunity in nature, and one of my annual favorites is “sugaring time.” In late winter, tree sap begins to flow, and from the ...

In early spring, when the snow comes up to our shins here in Vermont, my partner and I walk through the woods, drilling holes in maple trees and inserting taps. We then wait for the weather to warm up ...

As a kid growing up in Québec, maple syrup season was a much anticipated time of year. Every March, the local maple syrup producers would set-up rows of snow-packed troughs that stretched all the way ...

Have you been out for breakfast and had real maple syrup served with your pancakes or waffles? There is something about the aroma and taste. There is something about knowing it originates from maple ...

FUNKS GROVE — There’s something satisfying about listening to the plop, plop, plop of sap hitting a metal bucket. It is almost Zen-like in its rhythm. Plop, plop, plop. Listening to the sap drip and ...