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. Transforming sap into syrup is one ...

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 ...

Learn how to remove maple stiles, clean your equipment at the end of maple tapping season, and pick up a few recipes to help you enjoy that fresh maple syrup. Like all good things, the maple tapping ...

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 ...

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 ...

Maddie Aiken Thursday, March 10, 2022 12:01 a.m. | Thursday, March 10, 2022 12:01 a.m. Don’t get too sappy about it: The 2022 maple sugaring season is nearing its end in Western Pennsylvania. Dan ...

A recent account about the maple sugaring process mentioned in passing that plastic tubes for carrying sap from tree to sugar house have largely replaced the spouts and buckets. An alert reader in ...