It was early April, and his parents were boiling maple sap in the Western New York shack where they produced syrup and other maple-flavored goods. “It was pretty rustic,” Wightman says, “with just ...

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 ...

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 ...

Boiling maple sap into syrup is a time honored tradition in the Northeast, to the olfactory delight of anyone who has spent time in a steamy sugar house while inhaling the sweet maple scent of the ...

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 ...

COLD SPRING, Minn. – Someone boiling maple syrup found themselves in a sticky situation Tuesday night in central Minnesota. The Stearns County Sheriff's Office says fire broke out at about 10:30 p.m.

The potential for warmer spring temperatures during maple season creates concerns about how to keep sap cool. With a grant ...

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Maple producers are busy boiling down sap to make maple syrup, cream, candy and other products. “We make everything maple,” Becca Anderson of Roxbury Mountain Maple said. That includes maple soda and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There is truly nothing sweeter than syrup. After all, a true syrup is made by dissolving sugar in boiling water. But when it comes ...