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 ...

Bruce Hopper, owner of Pure BS Maple Shack in Auburn with his wife, Maria, is a jolly gentleman who brings jugs of maple syrup to his neighbors in exchange for allowing him to tap their glorious sugar ...

Families visited Indian Creek Nature Center Saturday to try their hand at syrup making and taste sap straight from the sugar maple trees. Groups learned about traditional and modern ways of making ...

Local News The art of maple sugaring | PHOTOS Environmental educator Zach Raiten measures the circumference of a maple tree to see if it is mature enough for tapping during a maple sugaring program at ...

Maple syrup is most commonly made from the sap of the sugar maple, so wherever you see sap buckets– or, more often these days, plastic tubing running through the woods– you are seeing a grove of maple ...

Pure maple syrup is a beautiful thing, sweet, with complex flavors, and it can only come from boiling the sap from a tree, a time-consuming process dependent on the weather. This year was off to a ...

Greenwich Land Trust staff were joined by residents at the Mueller Preserve for Maple Sugar Day. In addition to tapping maple trees with a drill and setting up a bucket to catch the sap, activities ...

Norway maple trees are quite common in the U.S., but they're actually an invasive species that can mess with local ecosystems ...

When adding a new tree to your backyard, there’s much to consider. How much space will it take up? How much shade will it cast? Is it deciduous or evergreen? Initially, how much maintenance will it ...

From an aesthetic point of view, Japanese maples have a distinctive architectural beauty year-round but especially after their leaves fall. From a practical perspective, these maple trees are compact ...