Sugar maple and red maple are the most common trees to tap, but syrup can also be made from silver maple, black maple and boxelder.

The nights are still cold but days are (mostly) becoming milder. That means it’s time to tap into those maple trees to begin the process of converting the sticky sap into delicious maple syrup or ...

The annual tapping of regional trees is going on now. Two local growers share learned wisdom about how it’s done combining old and new techniques.

Maple season, also known as tapping season, runs from the end of February through mid-April.

Have you always wanted to learn to tap maple trees to make your own maple syrup? Then you’re in luck because maple syrup ...

Maple sap forms a droplet at the opening of a spile on Feb.23 as the maple syrup season begins in Quasqueton. (Orlan Love/correspondent) Buy Photo The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using ...

A university in New Jersey is spending a $1 million grant from the US Department of Agriculture on testing the feasibility of a maple syrup industry in the Garden State. Stockton University is in its ...

See what happens at the Somerset County Maple Producers' annual tree tapping ceremony Feb. 28, marking the start of the 2026 ...

Maple sugar season is underway in northern Ohio and the future of the sugar maple (acer saccharum) may be in question. Forest or sugar bush maple trees are the source of maple sugar sap used to ...