Ever wanted to make your own maple syrup? With a few tools of the trade and a maple tree in the backyard, you’re just a few easy steps away from coating your waffles and cakes in homemade maple syrup.

Where in the US can you make maple syrup? So, can any old person tap a maple tree in their backyard and get maple sap? In order to harvest sap, maple trees need to be in a climate with weather ...

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 ...

All Wisconsin crops are impacted by the weather, and that includes maple syrup. Maple sap collection involves drilling into mature trees, with modern methods like vacuum systems and pipeline networks ...

Working with (hopefully) large quantities of syrup, adding more as the water boils off, the process can get messy, with boiled-over liquid and sticky residue left behind. Some operators will have a ...

Sugar maple trees don't grow just anywhere. Luckily for pancake and waffle lovers, Pennsylvania and Erie County are within the native range for this species that produces the sap used to make maple ...

Each February, local participants brave the cold to learn more about maple syrup production at an annual workshop at Dixon Springs Ag Center.