You might not have noticed, but drop by drop, the first harvest of 2021 has begun. There's more sunlight. Maple trees and their shallow roots break their dormancy, and the sap will be ready to rise up ...

“I have a dozen maple trees at home. I tap those and make about 2 or 3 gallons of maple syrup,” he said. With the efficient evaporator in the nature center’s Sap and Honey House, Wilson can make 2 ...

SILVER CREEK, Neb. (KOLN) - When the conditions are just right, Thomas Hemmer taps plastic spiles into sugar maple and silver maple trees to draw out sap the sap. He uses it to make his own maple ...

This story was originally featured on Outdoor Life. There are windows of opportunity in nature, and one of my annual favorites is “sugaring time.” In late winter, tree sap begins to flow, and from the ...

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 ...

HOLLY TOWNSHIP, Michigan --It may seem a little late in the season, but over the last week Holly Township Parks and Recreation naturalist Ann Crane and volunteer Richard Pethridge have managed to ...

After growing up watching his father tap maple trees in Michigan, Camp Wokanda manager Jacob Mol decided to bring his childhood memory to life in Peoria. About six years ago, Mol tapped 10 trees on ...

Last week’s freeze-thaw cycles meant that maple sap started to run. Below, we provide several ways that local parks will help you tap your own trees and make syrup. Did you know that you can make a ...

It might have been Dave Amerikaner’s first time tapping a sugar maple tree, but even as an amateur, he could tell the fast-flowing stream was a lot of sap. Sap was falling from branches, running down ...

The steady tap, tap, tap of maple sap dripping into metal buckets is one of the sweetest harbingers of spring. “Spring is all about renewal, and maple sugaring is the perfect excuse to be outside ...

FUNKS GROVE — There’s something satisfying about listening to the plop, plop, plop of sap hitting a metal bucket. It is almost Zen-like in its rhythm. Plop, plop, plop. Listening to the sap drip and ...