Maple syrup isn’t just for pancakes—it works well in both sweet and savory recipes. Its rich, natural sweetness adds depth to baked goods, glazes, sauces, and even drinks. Whether used as the main ...

Ever wanted to make your own maple syrup? With a few tools of the trade and a maple tree in the backyard, you’re just a few easy steps away from coating your waffles and cakes in homemade maple syrup.

If you’re looking for a fall-inspired sensory activity that smells amazing and feels completely different from traditional ...

It might have been Dave Amerikaner’s first time tapping a sugar maple tree, but even as an amateur, he could tell the fast-flowing stream was a lot of sap. Sap was falling from branches, running down ...

Mark and Susan Lockwood have made a hobby of tapping maple trees on their Seekonk property each year for the past 24 years. In a homemade evaporator, gallons of sap are boiled all day long at the end ...

Maple syrup is famously made in spring, when below-freezing nights followed by warm days cause the sap stored in a sugar maple’s trunk to flow up and out of the tree and into buckets or plastic tubing ...

You might not have noticed, but drop by drop, the first harvest of 2021 has begun. There's more sunlight. Maple trees and their shallow roots break their dormancy, and the sap will be ready to rise up ...