Start harvesting maple syrup in your backyard by gathering your maple tree tapping supplies and use these instructions to build a maple sap evaporator from a barrel.

And with the way the market works, the cost of American-made maple syrup will rise along with Canadian syrup. A gallon of maple syrup retails for $55.70, according to the most recent government data.

But, as Gov. Maura Healey declared, "Maple Month" doesn't occur until March. It's around this time of year local sugarmakers begin to boil down their sap supplies into maple syrup and other goodies.

Tapping maple trees and boiling the sap into syrup — known as sugaring — isn’t a new hobby. What’s unique about this year is the influx of suburban and urban backyard adventurers fueling ...

Maple Syrup Farms Are Hard At Work In Merrill Now, some may think that syrup production is just a hobby, but for a lot of people in Wisconsin, it helps put food on the table, it also brings money ...