You won't get sticker shock the next time you buy real maple syrup once you understand how difficult it is to produce this ...

Collecting the sweet syrup of boxelder trees is the perfect way ring in spring Mitch Thompson of the ND Forest Service teaches readers about how to collect sap from boxelder trees.

Maple syrup is famously made in spring, when below-freezing nights followed by warm days cause the sap stored in a sugar maple’s trunk to flow up and out of the tree and into buckets or plastic ...

What that means for maple syrup producers varies, but spring melt has become increasingly unpredictable. How weather affects the maple syrup harvest This year, sap started to flow early.

RELATED: A look back at the winter of 1877-1878, the warmest Twin Cities winter on record As trees warm and wake up, sap rises inside. That's why March is often maple syrup season. But this year ...

In Canada, where a single red maple leaf adorns its flag, syrup production soared in 2017, then a harsh winter and early spring sent it to a three-year low in 2018.

ANTRIM COUNTY, Mich. , (WPBN/WGTU) -- We're getting sappy as we transition from winter to spring. There's so much that goes into making maple syrup, but the most important factor is weather. The ...

ROSEVILLE, Minn. — Songs of spring differ by region, but in Amy Perkins' neighborhood, the music of tree sap hitting metal buckets fills the air. "My first year I collected 115 gallons of sap ...

On a cold, February day in the hills of the Finger Lakes, thousands of leafless maple trees stood dormant, waiting patiently for the kiss of spring. Armed with a hammer and drill, Aaron Wightman ...

I had always assumed that the sugar maple sap for maple syrup comes from the phloem, but I was wrong. When maple sugaring in the spring, we are actually tapping into the xylem, the sugars in this ...

Learn how to tap a maple tree and taste pure, local syrup at the Forest Preserve District of Kane County’s Maple Sugaring Days from noon to 3 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, March 2 and 3, at Creek ...

Bruce Hopper has been making maple syrup for 10 years. He taps his neighbors' maple sugar trees along Central Street in Auburn and has close to 200 taps on other sugar maples in other neighborhoods.