It was early April, and his parents were boiling maple sap in the Western New York shack where they produced syrup and other maple-flavored goods. “It was pretty rustic,” Wightman says, “with just ...

Five student groups earned Green Grants to pursue campus sustainability projects this spring. Among the winners was the Maple ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. How sweet this maple syrup season has been. Indeed, things are looking good for this ritual of late New England winters, according ...

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 ...

A few days later, with some prodding from my daughter, we launched our own maple syrup enterprise. Each year for the next several years, my family and I enjoyed this rewarding experience while ...

This story was originally featured on Outdoor Life. 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 ...

The months of March and April (roughly) are when farmers across the state harvest maple sap, boil it down, and bottle it up in a final product that nods to Vermont’s agricultural past and ...

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 ...

Bill and Elaine Markham have been making maple syrup at the Mill Brook Sugarhouse on New Lenox Road for 46 years. They use reverse osmosis to take out 75 percent of the water and an oil boiler to ...