HUNTING VALLEY, Ohio — Late winter is maple syrup season in Ohio! Warm afternoons and cold nights help the sap flow in the maple trees so it can be tapped, collected, boiled and bottled. The sugar ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich — It’s as much a Michigan tradition as playing euchre or using your hand as a map. We make maple syrup here, and this time of the year is typically the sweet spot for making the ...

LYKENS TOWNSHIP - On a sunny day in early spring, a cloud hung over the small building between Knauss Road and Ohio 100. That cloud was steam, not smoke, but it was nevertheless a signal: It meant the ...

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 ...

Making maple syrup is not as simple as boiling water. It requires drilling into and tapping trees, lots of buckets, tubing, freezing, "sheeting" pans and boiling water. Yes, sometimes, there's even ...

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 right trees, this sap can be collected and ...

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 ...