Readfield nativeDavid Harriman, co-owner of Dead Stream Alpaca and Maple Farm with his wife, Karen, runs an 1,800-tap maple ...

Working with (hopefully) large quantities of syrup, adding more as the water boils off, the process can get messy, with boiled-over liquid and sticky residue left behind. Some operators will have a ...

In the early days of the museum, the focus was on sharing old items collected by the Wells family, who founded Old Sturbridge ...

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 ...

SOMERVILLE — On a cold, gray Saturday in March, people of all ages made their way to the Somerville Community Growing Center to attend the 24th annual Maple Boil Down. Over the course of the day, 525 ...

Maple syrup season is just getting underway, and clouds of steam rise from the evaporators Derik and Sue Zimmel have set up in the driveway of their Leech Lake cabin to boil away the excess liquid on ...

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 ...

If you’re looking for a family-friendly weekend in New England, the Midwest or Quebec, it’s hard to find a better travel theme than syrup.

This story was originally featured on Outdoor Life. There are windows of opportunity in nature, and one of my annual favorites is “sugaring time.” In late winter, tree sap begins to flow, and from the ...

Christa Hein, of Bring the Farm to You, holds a section of a maple tree to discuss the outer and inner layers of bark. (Photo by Amy Phelps) BELPRE — The Belpre branch of the Washington County Public ...

Each February, local participants brave the cold to learn more about maple syrup production at an annual workshop at Dixon Springs Ag Center.

2020 was the year of baking, home improvement, and other quarantine projects. This year, there’s one more to try: making your own maple syrup. Making maple syrup might seem daunting, but I can ...