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 ...

Mark and Susan Lockwood have made a hobby of tapping maple trees on their Seekonk property each year for the past 24 years. In a homemade evaporator, gallons of sap are boiled all day long at the end ...

SAUKVILLE, Wis. (CBS 58) --- You don't need a sugarbush, a sugarbush house or a complicated cook process to make your own maple syrup in Wisconsin. You just need a maple tree, a drill, a spile and ...

“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 ...

Ever wanted to make your own maple syrup? With a few tools of the trade and a maple tree in the backyard, you’re just a few easy steps away from coating your waffles and cakes in homemade maple syrup.

Estelle Weissburg of Katy didn't know about real maple syrup from sap. She follows the tradition of her husband's family and makes her own syrup using Mapeline flavoring. "I don't know if it is still ...

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 ...

Forester and maple syrup expert Steven Roberge places a lid on a bucket collecting sap in his Peterborough backyard. It’s maple season in New Hampshire, and it’s not too late to become a maple ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – Love maple syrup? Well, now there are classes to learn how to make it right in the Twin Cities metro. The classes are at state parks that are only a short drive away, like at ...

Maple sap forms a droplet at the opening of a spile on Feb.23 as the maple syrup season begins in Quasqueton. (Orlan Love/correspondent) Buy Photo The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using ...