SEBEKA, Minn. — Maple sap has been dripping, and in some cases gushing, weeks earlier than normal for Minnesota’s maple syrup producers. The maple woods are normally just waking up and beginning to ...

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 ...

He spent the next weeks tapping 1,400 maple trees and installing nine miles of plastic tubing to collect their sap. In his Genesee County sugarhouse, as he lugs some of the 500 pounds of cordwood his ...

The sight of a steady drip of sap brought elation to Paula Babel as she lifted a metal bucket hanging off a spile in a sugar maple tree that she calls the “queen of trees.” She poured the crystal ...

The spell of warm weather that started in late December got the maple sap running, and some of the state’s largest syrup producers are boiling it already. While sugar making is more commonly ...

Camp Agape, a Christian ministry camp in Mt. Pleasant Township, produces maple syrup from the maple trees on the 275-acre property. The camp hosts its 10th annual Maple Syrup Festival on Saturday. An ...

Pancakes, maple treats, and boiling demonstrations await visitors across the state. See sugarhouses near you. Just a half-mile over the Massachusetts line, Jeff and Paula Babel are busy boiling down ...

Mike Kinnan in Pepper Pike has been maple sugaring since 2017, when a friend from Michigan pointed out that the silver maple trees in his yard could be tapped to make syrup. After many hours of ...

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 ...