FRANKLIN – About a dozen fifth-grade students crowded around Michael DeMain and a 175-year-old maple tree in the forest preserve surrounding the Wehr Nature Center in Franklin, eager to collect sap on ...

DETROIT — Tucked into Detroit’s 1,200 acre Rouge Park is one of the nation’s largest urban sugar maple tree groves in the country. But for years, the trees went unharvested. While making syrup from ...

Maple sugaring — or syrup — season is approaching, and soon enough you'll notice buckets clinging to maple trees as hobbyists and commercial operators begin collecting the sweet sap to make maple ...