What do you think of when you think of spring? You know spring is near when the days lengthen and the temperature begins to warm. You may think of the robin as the first sign of spring. But if you ...

My wife, dog and I harvest sap from the forest around our log cabin and make maple syrup using traditional methods: inserting metal spiles into maple trees, collecting sap in metal buckets, and ...

Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. Maple syrup is a natural forest food product and, for the most part, only ...

In retrospect, I was naive. It’s not that I thought I could hammer a spigot into my backyard maple tree and hold a plate of flapjacks underneath. But how hard could it be? Local nature centers are ...

How is maple syrup made? Start harvesting maple syrup in your backyard by gathering your maple tree tapping supplies and use these instructions to build a maple sap evaporator from a barrel.

Watery sap drips slowly from a spout in the side of the tree, falling drop by drop into a silver metal bucket attached to the trunk. The slightly sweet tree water is a nutritious drink, but this ...

Maple sugaring — or syrup — season is approaching, and soon enough you'll notice buckets clinging to maple trees as hobbyists and commercial operators begin collecting the sweet sap to make maple ...

Since before my children can remember, our family has engaged in a certain springtime ritual as authentic as New Hampshire, and older still. Sometime after Valentine’s Days, as the days are getting ...

See photos of the family-oriented program Magical Maple Trees, focused on teaching the origins of maple syrup, at Piney Run Park Nature Center on Wednesday, Feb. 24. Five-year-old twin siblings Brenna ...

White steam billows from the stainless steel smokestack rising through the roof of Gardner’s Sugar House in a Wrentham backyard. Vivid blue and green plastic maple sap tubing zigzags for hundreds of ...