TRAVERSE CITY — The 2024 harvest season for maple syrup was short and early, due to warmer temperatures. Even so, Michigan maintained its ranking as #5 in the nation for overall production – at ...

All Wisconsin crops are impacted by the weather, and that includes maple syrup. Maple sap collection involves drilling into mature trees, with modern methods like vacuum systems and pipeline networks ...

Experts say the subzero temperatures will not impact syrup quality, and some maple producers are even getting in some ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Maple Weekend, a celebration of New York State’s maple syrup industry, continues on Saturday into Sunday. It’s happening during the state’s maple tapping season. New York is the ...

From late November to early March, Ella Smoot can usually be found in one of two places: the forest or the sugar shack. Like all maple syrup producers, her winter is a rush of running sap—cold ...

To young Brooks Watts, visiting from Washington D.C. with his parents Greg and Rachelle Watts and his two siblings, the highlight of the Cunningham Falls State Park Maple Syrup Festival was obvious.

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 ...

Maple sugaring season has begun in Michigan, offering residents a chance to see how sap is harvested and turned into syrup. Michigan ranks fifth in the nation for maple syrup production, with hundreds ...

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

Erie County is home to sugar maple trees and Asbury Woods has a program to help people make their own syrup at home.