Pure maple syrup is significantly more expensive than pancake syrup due to labor and equipment costs. Many maple syrup producers are driven by family tradition and passion rather than profit. A recent ...

HIGHTOWN, Virginia — The woodpecker was the first sign of something strange underway. Ronnie Moyers heard the bird hammering in the woods one morning in late February, several weeks before the species ...

This year's maple sap collection in Massachusetts contains more sugar than most years. Sweeter sap requires less boiling time, which leads to increased maple syrup production. Colder temperatures and ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — The second and final Maple Weekend kicks off on Saturday. Around 160 farms, including dozens in the Finger Lakes region, are taking part in the annual celebration of New York State’s ...

Northern Michigan’s sugar maples stood tall and strong, sap flowing from taps into lines and collection buckets to be boiled down into the state’s sweetest crop. The maple syrup season was in full ...

The maple syrup season is underway at Mountsberg Conservation Area, where sap collected from nearby trees is being boiled into syrup in the sugar shack. The annual Maple Town program runs from late ...

A bucket hangs from a maple tree to collect sap at the University of Minnesota Landscape Arboretum in Chaska, Minn., on Feb. 14. Unseasonably warm weather with temperatures above 50 degrees led staff ...

The smell of sap and the taste of fresh syrup drew crowds to sugarhouses across Maine as the state celebrated the 43rd annual Maine Maple Sunday Weekend. More than 100 sugarhouses statewide took part ...

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