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 ...

Cornell University’s Uihlein Maple Research Forest in Lake Placid tries to be on the cutting edge of syrup-making innovations ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. It generally takes between 20 and 100 gallons of sap to produce a gallon of pure maple syrup. The exact amount can vary dramatically based on ...

The spell of warm weather that started in late December got the maple sap running, and some of the state’s largest syrup producers are boiling it already. While sugar making is more commonly ...

The flow of sap will usually stop if the temperature goes above 50 degrees. The gathering of maple sap dates back to the American Indians, who were tapping maple trees long before the settlers arrived ...

From late November to early March, Ella Smoot can usually be found in one of two places: the forest or the sugar shack. Like all maple syrup producers, her winter is a rush of running sap—cold ...

The typical timeframe for gathering sap from tapped maple trees, at least in my neck of the woods, is March 1 to April 1. This year, however, folks I know in the maple syrup world were tapping their ...

Temperatures in Erie were colder than usual in February and warmer than usual in the first half of March. Sugar makers have had one good sap flow and hope for more.

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 ...