One of the oldest crops in North America was being harvested this month a few miles up the Minnesota River from New Ulm. Fred ...

Forest or sugar bush maple trees are the source of maple sugar sap used to produce maple syrup. The decline of these trees should be of concern to maple syrup producers and consumers. According to ...

European settlers in the Northeast had learned how to sugar from the indigenous population, who for untold ages had been tapping maple trees and boiling down the sap to distill its sugary goodness.

In addition to their lovely fall foliage, sugar maple (acer saccharum) is a critically important tree to the ecology of our forests, as well as to our regional Northern Appalachian heritage.

and maple sugar being made," Michigan Maple Syrup Association said. Maple sugaring — or syrup — season begins when the changing temperatures allow sap to flow up and down tree trunks.

Sugar maples and red maples are the types of trees that produce most of Vermont's maple syrup. Not every maple tree produces the right sap for syrup, so you can’t just tap any and wait for the ...