How is maple syrup made? Start harvesting maple syrup in your backyard by gathering your maple tree tapping supplies and use these instructions to build a maple sap evaporator from a barrel.

Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. Maple syrup is a natural forest food product and, for the most part, only ...

Learn how to remove maple stiles, clean your equipment at the end of maple tapping season, and pick up a few recipes to help you enjoy that fresh maple syrup. Like all good things, the maple tapping ...

See photos of the family-oriented program Magical Maple Trees, focused on teaching the origins of maple syrup, at Piney Run Park Nature Center on Wednesday, Feb. 24. Five-year-old twin siblings Brenna ...

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 ...

In retrospect, I was naive. It’s not that I thought I could hammer a spigot into my backyard maple tree and hold a plate of flapjacks underneath. But how hard could it be? Local nature centers are ...

Maple sugaring — or syrup — season is approaching, and soon enough you'll notice buckets clinging to maple trees as hobbyists and commercial operators begin collecting the sweet sap to make maple ...

A recent account about the maple sugaring process mentioned in passing that plastic tubes for carrying sap from tree to sugar house have largely replaced the spouts and buckets. An alert reader in ...

Watery sap drips slowly from a spout in the side of the tree, falling drop by drop into a silver metal bucket attached to the trunk. The slightly sweet tree water is a nutritious drink, but this ...