Start harvesting maple syrup in your backyard by gathering your maple tree tapping supplies and use these instructions to build a maple sap evaporator from a barrel. Transforming sap into syrup is one ...

FRANKLIN – About a dozen fifth-grade students crowded around Michael DeMain and a 175-year-old maple tree in the forest preserve surrounding the Wehr Nature Center in Franklin, eager to collect sap on ...

It may not seem that way these days, but spring is rising and so is the sap. It’s the perfect (and only) time of year to extract sap from maple trees to turn into syrup. And you will find no shortage ...

When will the snow melt? Looking back in my garden journals, we have had snow cover until the middle of March in many of the years. I usually see the first robin about March 15. I remember because it ...

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 end ...

DETROIT — Tucked into Detroit’s 1,200 acre Rouge Park is one of the nation’s largest urban sugar maple tree groves in the country. But for years, the trees went unharvested. While making syrup from ...