Maple sap forms a droplet at the opening of a spile on Feb.23 as the maple syrup season begins in Quasqueton. (Orlan Love/correspondent) Buy Photo The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — The city of Missoula is reminding the public that tapping city-owned maple trees for syrup is illegal and harmful to the trees. Officials with the city's Urban Forestry Division say ...

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 ...

AUBURNDALE, Wis. (WSAW) --- Students at Auburndale Middle/High School learn maple tree tapping in their school forest as part of their Agriculture class in what the teacher says is a decent maple sap ...

Even though Somerset County is in the heart of winter, maple producers are already celebrating the oncoming spring. The annual Somerset County Maple Producers' Association tree-tapping ceremony is at ...

Sunday felt like a true changing of the seasons with temperatures ranging in the 50s. The sun and heat brought a big spring melt for most of the metro, which was perfect conditions for one of ...

GRAND MARAIS, Minn. — Warmer temperatures have brought the maple syrup producing season around Minnesota to a close. It also may portend the end of an era for a couple outside Grand Marais, who have ...

The art of sugaring requires patience, the right tools, trees, and weather. If the latter three come together, then you're halfway there. Plenty of Vermonter's make maple syrup without owning a farm ...

The O'Brien Maple Grove produces gallons of syrup and generations of memories. Each Saint Patrick's Day weekend, generations of the O'Brien clan gather in the family's maple grove to tap the sap, cook ...

The homesteading pros at Gold Shaw Farm tap maple trees for syrup using the Vermont method.