Lisa Gauker held up a bottle of store-bought pancake syrup. “Is this really maple syrup?” the recreation and special events supervisor for the Berks County Department of Parks and Recreation asked.

Mark and Susan Lockwood have made a hobby of tapping maple trees on their Seekonk property each year for the past 24 years. In a homemade evaporator, gallons of sap are boiled all day long at the end ...

This story was originally published in March 2020. Tapping maple trees in the first step in the process of making maple syrup. Tapping has to happen at that just-right Goldilocks time between winter ...

In Spring we celebrate changes in nature, and when sap starts rising in maple trees _ it’s a first indication that Spring is right around the corner. Area families gathered at River Trail Nature ...

Twenty miles southwest of Cornell’s Ithaca campus grows a forest of sweet trees. The tubing at their trunks carry sugary sap awaiting to be transformed into a crowd-pleasing breakfast staple: maple ...

Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. The sugar maple (Acer saccharum) can be considered the star of eastern North ...