This story was originally published in March 2020. Tapping maple trees in the first step in the process of making maple syrup. Tapping has to happen at that just-right Goldilocks time between winter ...

Question: During the recent warm spell, I saw someone tapping maple trees for syrup. Isn’t it too early? Answer: Tapping maple sap is ready when nature says so, and for some experienced “sugarbushers, ...

About the time you thought you ought to be out tapping maple trees it got too cold to even go outside, let alone for the sap to flow. During those five days of unrelieved subzero wind chills (Feb. 16 ...

Maple syrup is an especially welcome pantry staple during the cold weather season, when pancakes are a weekend breakfast star and root vegetables shine with a drizzle of this sweet gold. There are so ...

Have you always wanted to learn to tap maple trees to make your own maple syrup? Then you’re in luck because maple syrup ...

It might be a lot easier to do in Vermont, but you can make your very own maple syrup right here in the Pacific Northwest. On this week’s episode of the Peak Northwest podcast, we dive into the world ...

What do maple syrup and rubber have in common? They are both made from tree sap (kind of like tree blood)! However, only maple syrup is an edible sweet treat. Maple syrup is a natural sweetener with ...

SAUKVILLE, Wis. (CBS 58) -- It's prime maple sugarin' season in Wisconsin. Riveredge Nature Center will tap about 400 trees over the next month. "And that results in approximately 75 gallons of maple ...

A bucket hangs from a maple tree to collect sap at the University of Minnesota Landscape Arboretum in Chaska, Minn., on Feb. 14. Unseasonably warm weather with temperatures above 50 degrees led staff ...

AUBURNDALE, Wis. (WSAW) --- Students at Auburndale Middle/High School learn maple tree tapping in their school forest as part of their Agriculture class in what the teacher says is a decent maple sap ...