Cornell University’s Uihlein Maple Research Forest in Lake Placid tries to be on the cutting edge of syrup-making innovations ...

Maple syrup is a uniquely North American product thanks to its many sugar maple trees and a freeze/thaw cycle from late winter into spring that allows sap to flow. It is a staple of the American ...

While production is much larger today, maple syrup making remains a local, often family tradition in maple making regions, ...

Maple syrup has long been the lifeblood of Virginia’s Highland County. This year, a brutal ice storm and recent warmth ...

The official state tree of Wisconsin is the Sugar Maple, and its sap is the primary source of maple syrup. Since it takes at least several hundred sugar maples to make syrup production profitable, ...

From late November to early March, Ella Smoot can usually be found in one of two places: the forest or the sugar shack. Like all maple syrup producers, her winter is a rush of running sap—cold ...

The homesteading pros at Gold Shaw Farm show a new way to make maple syrup on the farm. Daines’s last-minute retirement maneuver leaves Capitol Hill stunned — and some frustrated One type of drinking ...

One weather fact above all others is as certain as sunrise in the morning and sunset in the evening. Above-freezing temperatures in daylight and below-freezing numbers at night mean the sap in the ...

Every winter, John Cermak and his family drill holes into 2,200 maple trees on their 45-acre farm. They hammer steel spouts into those holes, and then they wait. “The ideal weather for us is when it ...