When early spring rolls around, it's prime time for making maple syrup. So, how do farmers harvest sap and take it from the tree to the bottle?

They may look similar, and are both golden-brown, sticky, and sweet, but these two syrups are not the same thing. And the ...

As March fills with maple syrup festivals, we come to learn how maple trees aren't at all like factories or franchises. No. The sap they produce and its sugar content — all necessary to boil it ...

For the first time since he started making maple syrup, Wayne Mortimer tapped his sugar maple trees in January. Advertisement Article continues below this ad At a glance The New York State Maple ...

The sugar maple is ideal for tapping due to the high concentration of sugar found in its sap. Birch trees can also be tapped.

Although February or March is the typical time for sugarers to collect sap and boil maple syrup, some larger producers start tapping their trees as early as mid-December to get ahead for the season.

It takes about 40 gallons of maple sap to make a gallon of syrup. That’s because tree sap is mostly water, and generally 2-3% sugar in the form of sucrose. It also contains dissolved minerals ...

One sugar maple tree at Bendix Woods County Park in New Carlisle gave zero sap to boil into sweet syrup for this weekend’s Sugar Camp Days.

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 ...

The Missouri Department of Conservation states that sugar maple trees have the highest sugar content, around 3%. Other trees typically have only about 1% sugar content.

Maple Sugar Time!, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. March 22. Learn to identify maple trees, practice tapping a log with a hand drill, and see how sap transforms into syrup through live demonstrations.