Erie County is home to sugar maple trees and Asbury Woods has a program to help people make their own syrup at home.

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 ...

FRANKLIN – About a dozen fifth-grade students crowded around Michael DeMain and a 175-year-old maple tree in the forest preserve surrounding the Wehr Nature Center in Franklin, eager to collect sap on ...

Ruth Gerber Rupp was vacationing with her husband in Texas when she had to abruptly return home because of unseasonably warm weather in Wisconsin. Rupp, the founder of Maple Farmers Network, cut her ...

With an unusual weather pattern this winter including warmer than usual temperatures, sugar farmers have been able to get an early start on their sugar tapping this year. But what goes into a season ...

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SUTTON — Vermont Gov. Phil Scott tapped a maple tree at Pure Gold Sugaring in Sutton on March 3 to recognize the beginning of this year’s maple season. With the weather still chilly but the sun ...

By Peter Albert In 2017, the Times-Standard published my article about producing syrup from Humboldt County bigleaf maples. I ...

Maple Sugarin’ Festival, noon to 4 p.m. March 15. Hike through the maple forest, tap a tree, trade nature items for maple candies, and observe various means of syrup production. Complete a scavenger ...