When many people think of Latvian food, they probably think of serious meat and potatoes fare. But Latvians have been celebrating the end of their long, snow-filled winters with a fresh spring tonic ...

Yesterday’s sparkling water is today’s coconut water is tomorrow’s … birch tree sap? Birch water, a waterlike sap tapped from birch trees, is the latest beverage to join an alternative water market ...

BALTEZERS, Latvia (Reuters Life!) - Gourmet chef Martins Ritins holds up a jar filled with a crystal clear liquid and says "wow" after taking a sip. Like many people in Latvia and other northern and ...

Birch sap will soon be running as the weather warms up in Mat-Su. Gerald Keene is getting his sap lines in shape north of Wasilla at his 4 Trees Birch Syrup property. Keene tapped 635 birch trees last ...

WESTFIELD-- A local man who was stunned with a Taser by police in April after he allegedly tried to tap birch trees on private properties has been accused of another offense with common roots, ...

Our big birch has finally given up after decades of bronze birch borer and sapsucker damage. Rows of regular horizontal holes about one-quarter-inch in diameter cover the trunk from bottom to top.

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Root sap analyses were made on birch trees growing in a strongly podzolised heath soil. In the early summer the concentration of calcium and ...