Maple producers across the state, including several in Cattaraugus and Allegany counties, are preparing to open their doors ...

Mark and Susan Lockwood have made a hobby of tapping maple trees on their Seekonk property each year for the past 24 years. In a homemade evaporator, gallons of sap are boiled all day long at the ...

It takes 40 gallons of tree sap to create one gallon of maple syrup. The formula might come from science, but the result is pure magic, especially to Vermonters, who’ve been tapping and sugaring ...

He works with amateur and professional maple syrup producers, and he also taps hundreds of trees on his Peterborough property as a hobby sugar maker. “I was exposed at a pretty young age to ...

The Royal Horticultural Society advises pruning Japanese maple trees during their "fully dormant" stage, which falls in late autumn or winter, with a focus on eliminating any dead, damaged ...

Jason Lilley, a professor of sustainable agriculture at the University of Maine, says the state's maple trees are "absolutely" under stress from climate change. "I just don't want producers to be ...

Real maple syrup has not only sweetness and natural flavor but it also has all of the minerals and other nutrient compounds a tree needs to grow and thrive. Those minerals and nutrients are the ...

While the rest of the garden may still be in winter's embrace, these trees require timely attention ... Pruning too holds value in preserving a Japanese maple's health, form, and beauty, while ...

Looking at White’s Woods from a distance during the autumn months, you are sure to see the sugar maples displaying brilliant colors of yellow, red and orange. In fact, these maples are known ...

While drinking tree sap does not immediately sound appealing, Canadian producers are hoping that it will be the next must-try soft drink around the world. We have all heard of maple syrup ...

The sight of a steady drip of sap brought elation to Paula Babel as she lifted a metal bucket hanging off a spile in a sugar maple tree that she calls the “queen of trees.” She poured the ...