I love winter and have been hoping for a lot more snow, which we got last week, but only after an unseasonably (record-smashing) warm spell. Much as I love winter and want to stay in the moment, that ...

The sight of a steady drip of sap brought elation to Paula Babel as she lifted a metal bucket hanging off a spile in a sugar maple tree that she calls the “queen of trees.” She poured the crystal ...

Maple sugar season is underway in northern Ohio and the future of the sugar maple (acer saccharum) may be in question. Forest or sugar bush maple trees are the source of maple sugar sap used to ...

YORKTOWN, N.Y. (CBSNewYork)-- A stretch of chilly nights and warmer days has the sap flowing in northern Westchester County. That means the trees are tapped at White Oak Farm in Yorktown, the closest ...

SHEPHERD — It’s that time of the year when the sap starts to flow again. Maple trees need warm, sunny days and freezing nights for sap production. And because of the record temperatures we’ve seen ...

LANCASTER Pa. (WHTM) — When the nights are below freezing and the days are above freezing, sap begins to flow up and down inside maple trees, which means it’s maple sugaring season. Sugar maple sap is ...

Perhaps one of the most common myths about trees, Rachael West said, is that they go dormant during the winter months, falling into hibernation until spring rolls around. But West, founder of Eating ...

Looking to sweeten a long and bitter winter? There may be a private sweet shop growing in your yard, producing sugary sap that can be turned into maple syrup. Maple sugaring, the process that turns ...

Chances are you've not experienced the joy of real maple syrup. The rich, amber brown, thick syrup has a wonderfully deep sweet flavor, and a taste that will make you realize what those fake syrups ...

Native Americans of northeastern North America have been harvesting maple sap and boiling it into syrup and sugar for many centuries. Various tribes have legends of how this sweet bounty of the ...

If you visited White Lake School in White Lake, Wisconsin, during the winter, you might come across a group of students pounding pegs into three sugar maples on the front lawn. The trees are massive, ...