SOMERVILLE — On a cold, gray Saturday in March, people of all ages made their way to the Somerville Community Growing Center to attend the 24th annual Maple Boil Down. Over the course of the day, 525 ...

Parts of the Great Lakes region have seen their coldest winter in more than a decade, and maple syrup farmers are rejoicing.

This story was originally featured on Outdoor Life. There are windows of opportunity in nature, and one of my annual favorites is “sugaring time.” In late winter, tree sap begins to flow, and from the ...

In this video, we focus on making maple syrup while taking care of tasks around the cabin during the colder days when the sap is not running, including collecting drinking water from our stream. After ...

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 ...

Spring can be an exciting time to start getting outside after a long, cold winter in North Dakota. And what better reason than if there is sweet maple syrup as an end result? While we don’t have lush ...

Weather conditions haven’t been ideal for backyard maple syrup makers this season, but local sugar shacks are still boiling and selling across the state.

We look at the science behind the whole process, from sap to syrup. Are you a grade B maple syrup fan? Well, you can’t get it anymore. To understand why, we have to look at the science behind the ...