Bees make raw honey from the nectar of flowering plants like wildflowers ... Both honey and maple syrup primarily consist of ...

A forest community not typically recognized in most descriptions of Adirondack vegetation is the “upper slope hardwood-conifer forest”. This community is very similar to the mixedwood type except red ...

Sunday marked the end of Maple Weekend, a series of four days to celebrate New York State’s maple syrup industry.

It all starts with finding the right maple trees. While all maple tree species produce sap, sugar maples have the absolute best quality sap with the highest sugar content and is the one syrup make ...

Area maple sugar producers celebrated the first Maple Weekend on Saturday and Sunday, showing visitors how maple sugaring ...

The sight of a steady drip of sap brought elation to Paula Babel as she lifted a metal bucket hanging off a spile in a sugar maple tree that she calls the “queen of trees.” She poured the ...

Plymouth City Park will dedicate its new sugar shack April 5 at the fourth annual Maple Festival. The sugar shack was built with the help of the Plymouth Maple Association, local businesses and ...

You may also catch a glimpse of maple candy, maple cream, and maple sugar being made," Michigan Maple Syrup Association said. Maple sugaring — or syrup — season begins when the changing ...

Later, maple sugaring also became a moral crusade that offered a home-grown alternative to imported, enslaved-produced cane sugar. It wasn’t until the mid-to-late 1800s that the industry began ...