A leaf-shaped bottle of maple syrup beside a dish of maple syrup and a honeycomb wand - Pixel-Shot/Shutterstock North Americans know that when the days grow warmer and the evenings stay cold, it's ...
All Wisconsin crops are impacted by the weather, and that includes maple syrup. Maple sap collection involves drilling into mature trees, with modern methods like vacuum systems and pipeline networks ...
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Wild late winter temperature swings make one type of Northeast Ohio gardener happy: maple sugarmakers, who harvest sap from maple trees for a few weeks in February and March and ...
How Is Maple Syrup Made? Let's start with some basics: Where exactly does maple syrup come from, and how is it produced? Maple syrup is made from maple sap. It is harvested from late winter to spring, ...
Perhaps one of the most common myths about trees, Rachael West said, is that they go dormant during the winter months, falling into hibernation until spring rolls around. But West, founder of Eating ...
NATICK - It's officially maple syrup season in Massachusetts. "Maple season is about a six-week window from when you tap the tree to when you're done collecting sap from the tree," said Haley Goulet ...
The discovery of maple syrup predates the arrival of Europeans on this continent by many years. Indigenous people of the Northeast – probably the Iroquois – were the first to discover the sweetness of ...
Visitors to Codorus State Park have the chance to discover how maple syrup is made, from sap to syrup, in free one-hour educational programs offered at the park during the spring season. Those ...
Vermont sugar makers are producing about four times the amount of syrup they were 25 years ago, according to Mark Isselhardt, with the University of Vermont Extension Maple Program, due to a shift to ...
Ohio State has been making maple syrup for years. They hope it brings more people to the sustainable crop. On a cold January morning, Ohio State University assistant professor Gabriel Karns is outside ...
The maple syrup season was drawing to a close at the start of April 1947, but work was still underway at the Samuel Rosbrugh sugar camp where there were about 1,100 trees tapped in the 33 acre woods.