Indigenous peoples taught European colonizers how to tap maple trees to make maple syrup. For this Menominee family, it's a ...

The nights are still cold but days are (mostly) becoming milder. That means it’s time to tap into those maple trees to begin the process of converting the sticky sap into delicious maple syrup or ...

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 ...

Maine's maple syrup industry thrives, with producers expanding to meet rising global demand.

CROSS PLAINS (WKOW) -- It's the time of the year for maple tree tapping, and many area farms have been busy gathering their share of sap to be cooked into syrup. The weather, however, is creating some ...

What do maple syrup and rubber have in common? They are both made from tree sap (kind of like tree blood)! However, only maple syrup is an edible sweet treat. Maple syrup is a natural sweetener with ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Somerset County Maple Producers' annual tree-tapping ceremony heralding the coming of spring will be held at 2 p.m. Feb. 28 at ...

The official state tree of Wisconsin is the Sugar Maple, and its sap is the primary source of maple syrup. Since it takes at least several hundred sugar maples to make syrup production profitable, ...

With the temperatures rising many of the maple trees in the area will soon be ready to be tapped for syrup. While syrup ...

Environmental studies professor James Skillen is no stranger to maple syrup. When Skillen attended Cornell University in New York from 2001 to 2006, he took part in their Sugar Maple Research and ...