After months of harvesting sweet sap from thousands of maple trees, two Michigan communities are celebrating the end of the season with the fruits of all that labor. This week, Shepherd and ...

Bill Thornley bthornley@spooneradvocate.com Apr 5, 2026 7 hrs ago SPOONER — It’s the kind of northwestern Wisconsin morning that most dream of, cool, clear and drenched in sunshine. The outdoors ...

White steam billows from the stainless steel smokestack rising through the roof of Gardner’s Sugar House in a Wrentham backyard. Vivid blue and green plastic maple sap tubing zigzags for hundreds of ...

This year's maple sap collection in Massachusetts contains more sugar than most years. Sweeter sap requires less boiling time, which leads to increased maple syrup production. Colder temperatures and ...

HIGHTOWN, Virginia — The woodpecker was the first sign of something strange underway. Ronnie Moyers heard the bird hammering in the woods one morning in late February, several weeks before the species ...

Admission is free for CNC members and all children under age 18, and $7 for non-member adults. Visitors can take a wagon ride to the Homestead area to see the process of boiling sap into pure maple ...

Chippewa Nature Center drew about 900 people to its annual Maple Syrup Day on Saturday, March 21. With the help of 100 volunteers, the event aimed to show the community the process for creating maple ...

Tapping a tree for maple syrup is a tradition in New England. They're doing it with a modern twist at the Moose Hill Wildlife Sanctuary in Sharon, Massachusetts. "For some people, this is their first ...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. – March 18, 2026 – Miles of blue tubing weaving through the maples at Heiberg Forest signal the arrival of maple syrup season at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry.

Spencer Luthy, owner of Maplewood Farms in Harwinton, said this year he has nearly tripled his maple sap production, as the colder temperatures over winter and historic high temperatures of March have ...

Maple sugaring buckets in Sutton, NH. Plumes of steam are finally rising from sugar shacks across New Hampshire, after a cold winter delayed maple season longer than usual. At Six Saplings Sugarhouse ...