Von Salmi has committed 38 years to the art of maple syrup, and neither age nor climate change will stop him from practicing his favorite hobby. In 1987, Salmi built his family's home on 15 acres of ...

Winter's freakish warmth made for a somewhat skimpy maple sugar season, but it still produced mysteries. One sugar maple tree at Bendix Woods County Park in New Carlisle gave zero sap to boil into ...

Quite a few of my friends have been grumbling about how they can’t wait for winter to be over and that they are ready for spring. I was surprised by this. I feel the opposite. It feels to me like we ...

After the harvesting process comes the real work of maple sugaring, which is concentrating the sap into delicious maple syrup. Commercial producers use reverse osmosis, and Kinnan says he is ...

Eight years ago, Vince Portelli tapped a sugar maple tree on his brother-in-law’s property, brought the sap back to his Bloomingdale home, watched a YouTube video on how to make syrup, boiled the sap ...

There’s a common bit of advice that when you can hear spring peepers, it marks the end of the maple sugaring season. At Kettle Ridge Farm in Victor they heard the high-pitched trill of the tiny frogs ...

Sugar houses across New Hampshire are getting ready to open their doors to visitors for the state’s annual Maple Weekend, a celebration of locally produced maple syrup. But many producers say the ...

DEERBROOK, Wis. — Jeremy Solin doesn’t need a jacket right now on his family farm in northern Wisconsin. There’s no snow blanketing the dead leaves in the grove of sugar maples. There, pails already ...

In this March 9, 2016, file photo, a bottle of maple syrup is displayed at the Merrifield Farm and Sugar Shack in Gorham, Maine. The coronavirus pandemic forced some states to cancel their annual ...

The art of maple syrup production trails through generations of Danno Potter’s family history. His great-grandfather bought the family farm in the late 1880s and cleared the land for strawberries, ...

What do you think of when you think of spring? You know spring is near when the days lengthen and the temperature begins to warm. You may think of the robin as the first sign of spring. But if you ...

Your letters and e-mails reflect that there is still plenty to do in the garden. Here are answers to some of the questions sent in by readers. One recent morning we awoke to find one of our dwarf ...