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.

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 ...

March is the time of year when local sugarmakers begin to boil down their sap supplies into maple syrup and other goodies. And this Saturday and Sunday, you can catch a sugar rush during the state ...

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.