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New York maple-syrup production totaled 829,000 gallons this year, down 2 percent from the 846,000 gallons produced in 2024.
According to researchers at the University of Kentucky, maple syrup production in the Commonwealth has the potential to ...
MISSOULA, Mont. — The city of Missoula is reminding the public that tapping city-owned maple trees for syrup is illegal and harmful to the trees. Officials with the city's Urban Forestry ...
Forester and maple syrup expert Steven Roberge places a lid on a bucket collecting sap in his Peterborough backyard. It’s maple season in New Hampshire, and it’s not too late to become a maple ...
Dean Kress of Quasqueton drills a hole in a maple tree on Feb. 23 in Quasqueton. Kress and his syrup partner Orlan Love tapped 19 maple trees, which yielded 9 gallons of sap on the first ...
Wild Encounters. Tapping Maple Trees for Syrup. Posted: March 9, 2025 | Last updated: March 11, 2025 "Gold Shaw Farm, located in Peacham, VT, is a 158-acre homestead-in-progress.
Maple syrup producers in Waterloo region are preparing to start their season with a tree tapping ceremony on Friday. While climate change caused early starts to maple seasons in the last three ...
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 ...
About 40 gallons of sap boil down to 1 gallon of pure maple syrup. Matt Lockwood, Susan and Mark's son, has begun tapping trees and keeping the tradition alive at his own property in Norton, MA.
Maple syrup is a one-ingredient food. Only one thing goes into making it: the sap of maple trees collected in early spring. Every year in late January, the University of Illinois Extension Dixon ...
Maple syrup is one of those foods that conjures up particular imagery – the trees, the color red, the forests, the sap dripping into metal buckets. And there is the conviviality of the sugar house ...
Today I'm tapping maple trees for syrup at our farm in Vermont. Let me show you how we do it here with a simple approach that works for any backyard or small scale maple fan. Let me tell you ...