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 ...

The spell of warm weather that started in late December got the maple sap running, and some of the state’s largest syrup producers are boiling it already. While sugar making is more commonly ...

After the harvesting process comes the real work of maple sugaring, which is concentrating the sap into delicious maple syrup. Commercial producers use reverse osmosis, and Kinnan says he is ...

More than 100 sugarhouses, farms and maple producers across Maine are preparing for the 41st Maine Maple Sunday Weekend March 23 and 24. The event falls toward the end of the sap running season and is ...

Maple season is in full swing in New England, with sap harvesters producing a variety of maple products from syrup to maple brittle, maple soda, and maple flavored ribs.

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The flow of sap will usually stop if the temperature goes above 50 degrees. The gathering of maple sap dates back to the American Indians, who were tapping maple trees long before the settlers arrived ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. How sweet this maple syrup season has been. Indeed, things are looking good for this ritual of late New England winters, according ...

Pancakes, maple treats, and boiling demonstrations await visitors across the state. See sugarhouses near you. Just a half-mile over the Massachusetts line, Jeff and Paula Babel are busy boiling down ...

White steam billows from the stainless steel smokestack rising through the roof of Gardner’s Sugar House in a Wrentham backyard. Vivid blue and green plastic maple sap tubing zigzags for hundreds of ...