You may think of the robin as the first sign of spring. But if you have a taste for maple syrup, you may think of collecting sap from a sugar maple tree. Sugar maple trees produce sap during the ...

You may think of the robin as the first sign of spring. But if you have a taste for maple syrup, you may think of collecting sap from a sugar maple tree. Sugar maple trees produce sap during the ...

watery sap that flows in early spring and boiling it down to condense it into maple syrup or maple sugar. But timing is everything. Tapping the trees too soon, especially with the spile-and-bucket ...

Maple syrup is as delicious as it is versatile, but it's often filled with sugar. Which grocery store syrups are worth the ...

It is the favorable tree for syrup production as the sap contains twice the sugar concentration of any other maple species (~2.5% sugar). Trees are tapped in early spring when the sap begins to flow ...

Maple syrup is a natural product derived from maple tree sap, which begins to run in the spring. Historically farmers inserted spouts into the trees (a process called tapping) and collected the ...

Making Maple Syrup Every spring, students in the Maple Sugar and the Environment wellness course tap maple trees on campus, learning how the environment and climate impact syrup production while ...

But Christmas trees are always on their minds ... we basically catch our breath and get ready for maple syrup. But starting in the spring is planting time and cleaning up the fields and ...

These offered a hedge against hardship: plant mixes in the field shifted with the weather. More rye one year, less wheat ...

When you think of spring break, chances are you imagine ... from full moon yoga to a soothing Vermont maple syrup and brown sugar scrub. North-central New Mexico offers striking mountain scenery ...