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 ...
Erie County is home to sugar maple trees and Asbury Woods has a program to help people make their own syrup at home.
Mark and Susan Lockwood have made a hobby of tapping maple trees on their Seekonk property each year for the past 24 years. In a homemade evaporator, gallons of sap are boiled all day long at the end ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
The potential for warmer spring temperatures during maple season creates concerns about how to keep sap cool. With a grant from the Northern New York Agricultural Development Program, Uihlein Maple ...
Early drilling in the woods paid off for at least two of Berkshire County’s maple producers, who got their first boil on Jan. 26. That early season was placed on hiatus, however, after a deep freeze ...
Alexander Watson likes his maple syrup on homemade pancakes, with a side of bacon. Take his word for it. He’s an expert in the field. A regional naturalist with the Department of Natural Resources at ...