Two of the most popular sweeteners we have are honey and maple. While honey is locally produced all over the world, maple syrup is coveted more as drawing sap from the trees, is a very labor ...

The sugar maple in 2022; photographs of the tree taken in 1942, top, and 1952; the tree’s bark; and its stump. Still, I hoped we could save her. Prune the dead limbs. Trim back. A little longer ...

Chippewa Nature Center will host its annual Maple ... a tree or discover some sugarbush treasure with a scavenger hunt in the woods. Completed scavenger hunts will be entered into a prize drawing.

A sweet surprise in the woods! A sweet surprise in the woods! On an early spring walk, Evie came across a Sugar Maple tree that had been tapped—but not by people. Evie checks out the visitors ...

March is maple syrup season in Wisconsin. The sugar maple tree and the history of maple sugaring is an important part of Wisconsin’s heritage. Genuine maple syrup follows a process of tapping ...

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 ...

Better yet, growing maples doesn’t involve the excess of chemicals that cane sugar farming does. Rather, a maple tree sustains native life. Several animals rely on its bark, twigs, buds ...

Eight years ago, Vince Portelli tapped a sugar maple tree on his brother-in-law’s property, brought the sap back to his Bloomingdale home, watched a YouTube video on how to make syrup ...