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

SILVER CREEK, Neb. (KOLN) - When the conditions are just right, Thomas Hemmer taps plastic spiles into sugar maple and silver maple trees to draw out sap the sap. He uses it to make his own maple ...

The spell of warm weather that started in late December got the maple sap running, and some of the state’s largest syrup producers are boiling it already. While sugar making is more commonly ...

Boiling maple sap into syrup is a time honored tradition in the Northeast, to the olfactory delight of anyone who has spent time in a steamy sugar house while inhaling the sweet maple scent of the ...

Native Americans of northeastern North America have been harvesting maple sap and boiling it into syrup and sugar for many centuries. Various tribes have legends of how this sweet bounty of the ...

This article was written by Martha Hayden and originally appeared on The Restless Viking website on April 1, 2025. Throughout North America in the crisp, early spring people gather around steamy pans ...

Sugar maple and red maple are the most common trees to tap, but syrup can also be made from silver maple, black maple and boxelder.

Looking to sweeten a long and bitter winter? There may be a private sweet shop growing in your yard, producing sugary sap that can be turned into maple syrup. Maple sugaring, the process that turns ...