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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. How sweet this maple syrup season has been. Indeed, things are looking good for this ritual of late New England winters, according ...

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.

Mike Kinnan in Pepper Pike has been maple sugaring since 2017, when a friend from Michigan pointed out that the silver maple trees in his yard could be tapped to make syrup. After many hours of ...

Steam is rising at sugarhouses across the state as their season to shine approaches ahead of the 40th annual Maine Maple Sunday on March 26. The event, traditionally held the fourth Sunday in March, ...

Cody Anderson feeds the evaporator fire. This time of year, Something Wild co-host Dave Anderson is busy in his sugar house. He’s trying to keep the sap boiling just as fast as it flows through the ...

Though March is officially considered Massachusetts Maple Month, many sugar makers have already kicked-off the 2024 season, tapping maple trees for syrup as early as mid-January with no clear end to ...

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 ...