If so, chances are you've thought about "sugaring"—the process of collecting maple sap and boiling it down to make maple syrup. Maple sugaring is fun and easy and can be done on a small or large ...

For starters, what's the best kind of maple syrup to cook and bake with, anyway? "In order to have the maple flavor come through, you need dark colored syrup," says Sorkin.

Maple sap can be boiled down beyond the syrup stage into the classic sweetener, maple sugar, which is easy to store and transport. Because birch syrup is precious and pricey, it may cost as much ...

Maple sap is boiled down during a maple sugaring demonstration by the Berks County Parks and Recreation Department on Saturday, Feb. 22, 2025, at Gring’s Mill.

Seventh-graders at the Riverside district school have been working with staff members this winter to make maple syrup from trees on school grounds. Students are learning how to tap, boil and ...

When sugar shacks get busy boiling maple sap into liquid gold, we know spring is around the corner. The annual ritual has taken place for thousands of years, beginning with the Indigenous peoples ...

Sap will soon be flowing from Michigan’s sugar maples, ready to be boiled down to pure maple syrup. Good, old-fashioned maple syrup is among the state’s oldest agricultural products, dating ...