After the harvesting process comes the real work of maple sugaring, which is concentrating the sap into delicious maple syrup. Commercial producers use reverse osmosis, and Kinnan says he is ...

Maple syrup is among one of the oldest commodities produced in the United States. Northeastern Native Americans managed maple groves, tapped trees and gathered sap to make syrup when European ...

Sugar maple and red maple are the most common trees to tap, but syrup can also be made from silver maple, black maple and boxelder.

Perhaps one of the most common myths about trees, Rachael West said, is that they go dormant during the winter months, falling into hibernation until spring rolls around. But West, founder of Eating ...

Readfield nativeDavid Harriman, co-owner of Dead Stream Alpaca and Maple Farm with his wife, Karen, runs an 1,800-tap maple operation, with 800 taps on 56 acres of his own land off Winthrop Road, and ...