Making maple syrup and savoring its flavor is a definite part of the process in enjoying one of nature’s wonderful seasonal ...

DCR is offering maple sugaring programs at parks across the state. Learn how to make maple syrup, a skill learned from Indigenous people from the northeast. Activities vary depending on location but ...

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 ...

In theory, maple season should be ramping up because temperatures are now above freezing during the day and below freezing at night, which means the sugar maple sap is flowing. But with a foot or more ...

One of my fondest memories as a teenager was working for a neighbor in his woods gathering sap to make maple syrup. This began first with “tapping” maple trees using a hand-drill and hammering in ...

The art of maple syrup production flows through generations of Dan Potter’s family history. His great-grandfather bought the family farm in rural Iowa in the late 1880s and cleared the land for ...

In 2017, the Times-Standard published my article about producing syrup from Humboldt County bigleaf maples. I described maple syruping as fundamental to my Vermont and Québec youth, my homesickness ...

This story is a product of the Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk, an independent reporting network based at the University of Missouri in partnership with Report for America, with major funding ...

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