Maple syrup is famously made in spring, when below-freezing nights followed by warm days cause the sap stored in a sugar maple’s trunk to flow up and out of the tree and into buckets or plastic tubing ...

I love winter and have been hoping for a lot more snow, which we got last week, but only after an unseasonably (record-smashing) warm spell. Much as I love winter and want to stay in the moment, that ...

Maple syrup season is just getting underway, and clouds of steam rise from the evaporators Derik and Sue Zimmel have set up in the driveway of their Leech Lake cabin to boil away the excess liquid on ...

When it comes to the best places for making homemade maple syrup, West Virginia is not often mentioned, but a group of ...

(WLUK)-- Tis the season for tapping maple trees for sap in Northeast Wisconsin. "So we are going to tap this maple tree, this is a Box Elder like I mentioned," said Erica Bukouricz, the public program ...

Regardless of the weather, the calendar tells us spring is just around the corner and so do several events featuring maple syrup, nature’s sweet harbinger of spring. Each of these events combines ...

Although the ground is still snow-covered and the air still frigid, something’s happening in the trees. The trees know spring is coming. The sap is churning underground and ready to make its way up ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) -- It takes quite the process to get local maple syrup from the tree to your table. The biggest indicator of how much we'll get to enjoy is determined by Mother Nature. So far, ...

Nothing goes better with a stack of pancakes or waffles than a generous pouring of maple syrup, but does it have any ...

The first signs of spring are very sweet, literally. It's maple syrup season and I'm just back from a friend's sugar bush near Lake Superior where we tapped trees in the deep, quiet, snowy woods. At ...

You know spring is coming when the deer have dropped their antlers, the pussy willow buds pop and nature centers offer their annual maple syrup programs. On the first day of March, my family followed ...

Mar. 19—FEDERAL DAM, Minn. — Tapping maple trees to collect the sap they produce is perhaps the quintessential rite of spring in this part of north-central Minnesota rich in its source of the tasty ...