Erie County is home to sugar maple trees and Asbury Woods has a program to help people make their own syrup at home.

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 ...

SOMERVILLE — On a cold, gray Saturday in March, people of all ages made their way to the Somerville Community Growing Center to attend the 24th annual Maple Boil Down. Over the course of the day, 525 ...

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 ...

Native Americans of northeastern North America have been harvesting maple sap and boiling it into syrup and sugar for many centuries. Various tribes have legends of how this sweet bounty of the ...

Want to learn how syrup is made? Codorus State Park has announced the 2026 schedule for its unique - and free - maple ...

The spell of warm weather that started in late December got the maple sap running, and some of the state’s largest syrup producers are boiling it already. While sugar making is more commonly ...

SILVER CREEK, Neb. (KOLN) - When the conditions are just right, Thomas Hemmer taps plastic spiles into sugar maple and silver maple trees to draw out sap the sap. He uses it to make his own maple ...

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 ...

Looking to sweeten a long and bitter winter? There may be a private sweet shop growing in your yard, producing sugary sap that can be turned into maple syrup. Maple sugaring, the process that turns ...

ROSEVILLE, Minn. — Songs of spring differ by region, but in Amy Perkins' neighborhood, the music of tree sap hitting metal buckets fills the air. "My first year I collected 115 gallons of sap," ...

March is maple syrup season in Wisconsin. The sugar maple tree and the history of maple sugaring is an important part of Wisconsin’s heritage. Genuine maple syrup follows a process of tapping trees ...