It was early April, and his parents were boiling maple sap in the Western New York shack where they produced syrup and other maple-flavored goods. “It was pretty rustic,” Wightman says, “with just ...

After the harvesting process comes the real work of maple sugaring, which is concentrating the sap into delicious maple syrup. Commercial producers use reverse osmosis, and Kinnan says he is ...

As March fills with maple syrup festivals, we come to learn how maple trees aren't at all like factories or franchises. No. The sap they produce and its sugar content — all necessary to boil it down ...

We all know that foods like beans and cabbage may give us gas. There is one case, though, where gas gives us food. Fortunately, it’s not the same kind of gas. From roughly mid-February through the end ...

GEAUGA COUNTY, Ohio — On Wednesday at Sugar Valley Maple in Geauga County, James Miller checked on a few of his taps. On his 80 acres of land, he has about 3,000 taps, all harvesting sap from maple ...

SEBEKA, Minn. — Maple sap has been dripping, and in some cases gushing, weeks earlier than normal for Minnesota’s maple syrup producers. The maple woods are normally just waking up and beginning to ...