Nature has much to share with us on the first day of spring, like the clean sweet caramel taste of pure maple syrup. At River Trail Nature Center in Northbrook on Sunday, families were introduced to ...

Bottles of vinegar that Sweet Tree Holdings produces under the Maple Guild name. Sweet Tree also produces maple products for a number of other labels. Photo by Anne Wallace Allen/VTDigger ISLAND POND ...

It might have been Dave Amerikaner’s first time tapping a sugar maple tree, but even as an amateur, he could tell the fast-flowing stream was a lot of sap. Sap was falling from branches, running down ...

It’s peak maple sugar season and there’s no place better to get into the thick of it than New England. Maple trees are tapped across the region, from Rhode Island to the northern points of Maine. More ...

Could New England’s mud season be the sweetest season of all? If we’re talking maple syrup – that super sweet sap we take from trees and boil down to magic – it is. Discovering the maple syrup process ...

Michigan is always in the top 10 U.S. producers of maple syrup, averaging around fifth place; the state produced more than 110,000 gallons of the sweet stuff in 2017. (For comparison, the nation's ...

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 ...

Michigan Maple Weekends are ready to celebrate the sweetest sign of spring’s return. The annual month-long series of events in mid-March and early April invites Michiganders to learn about the ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich — It’s as much a Michigan tradition as playing euchre or using your hand as a map. We make maple syrup here, and this time of the year is typically the sweet spot for making the ...