Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. Maple syrup is a natural forest food product and, for the most part, only ...

BINGHAMTON, N.Y. (WBNG) - Students in the building trades class at Broome-Tioga BOCES are producing homemade maple syrup — about 50 bottles per year — using a reverse osmosis system they built ...

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 ...

"This project is an excellent example of how hands-on learning brings education to life for our students," said ...

Making maple syrup is simple- you tap a tree, collect the sap, and boil it down. But it's more complicated for large-scale producers who collect thousands of gallons of sap per day. To keep up with ...

Students at Hampton Academy and Marston School tapped trees, collected sap, and made maple syrup themselves last winter.

Making maple syrup takes a lot of trees, taps, sap and time. For those willing to tackle the job, it is "tremendous," said commercial syrup maker Eric Randall. An agricultural cottage industry perhaps ...

Maple syrup is nature’s original sweetener and one of Wisconsin’s top agricultural products. Maple sugaring – collecting sap from trees and boiling it down into syrup – typically peaks in March, when ...

Maple syrup season is just getting underway, and clouds of steam rise from the evaporators Derik and Sue Zimmel have set up in the driveway of their Leech Lake cabin to boil away the excess liquid on ...

You can celebrate this sweet symbol of winter’s nearing end with some upcoming events in the area. “Maple sugaring is the process of taking maple sap and cooking it down into syrup or sugar,” said ...