Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. Maple syrup is a natural forest food product and, for the most part, only ...

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Maple syrup depends on freezing nights and mild days to move sap through trees; a precise weather recipe found from Vermont to Virginia’s mountains each spring.

Do you want to learn how to make maple syrup? Do you have some maple trees? Are they sugar or silver maples? If so, chances are you've thought about "sugaring"—the process of collecting maple sap and ...

NATICK - It's officially maple syrup season in Massachusetts. "Maple season is about a six-week window from when you tap the tree to when you're done collecting sap from the tree," said Haley Goulet ...

Maple sap starts as mostly water, and turning it into syrup takes a long boil, careful testing, and the right moment to stop. In Northern Minnesota, the process begins with drilling into the trees, ...

Is there anything more wonderful than a stack of buttermilk pancakes dripping with golden maple syrup? How about seeing how the sweet syrup is made and then tasting the final product? Every spring, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Modern maple syrup production involves attaching tubes to a forest of mature trees and applying suction to help draw the sap out ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Spencer Luthy, owner of Maplewood Farms in Harwinton, said this year he has nearly tripled his maple sap production, as the colder ...

ALBANY, N.Y. -- Maple syrup makers are hoping the cold, snowy winter portends a steady flow of sap from sugar maple trees. Producers from Lake Erie to Lake Placid are poised to put taps into trees ...