For more than 40 years, educators and volunteers at the Lake County Forest Preserves have led popular Maple Syrup Hikes through Ryerson Conservation Area in Riverwoods. Each March, families, school ...

The maple sap is flowing, which is a sure sign that spring is just around the corner. Learn how maple syrup is made, and maybe even try your hand at tapping a tree, at one of these events around the ...

Candace Johnson has often eaten the store-bought blend of chemicals and artificial flavors that sells as maple syrup, but she’d never tasted the real thing. So on Saturday, the 17-year-old and her ...

Looking to sweeten a long and bitter winter? There may be a private sweet shop growing in your yard, producing sugary sap that can be turned into maple syrup. Maple sugaring, the process that turns ...

Maple sugaring season has begun in Michigan, offering residents a chance to see how sap is harvested and turned into syrup. Michigan ranks fifth in the nation for maple syrup production, with hundreds ...

A leaf-shaped bottle of maple syrup beside a dish of maple syrup and a honeycomb wand - Pixel-Shot/Shutterstock North Americans know that when the days grow warmer and the evenings stay cold, it's ...

This story was originally featured on Outdoor Life. There are windows of opportunity in nature, and one of my annual favorites is “sugaring time.” In late winter, tree sap begins to flow, and from the ...

HUNTING VALLEY, Ohio — It's maple syrup season! Warm days and cold nights following a frigid winter help the sap in maple trees flow, giving us generally four to six weeks of harvest time across Ohio.

Feb. 28—When it comes to making maple syrup, everything Rodney May needs is within a feet of his home's front door. May's eastern Daviess County home is surrounded by woods filled with sugar maple ...

Christa Hein, of Bring the Farm to You, holds a section of a maple tree to discuss the outer and inner layers of bark. (Photo by Amy Phelps) BELPRE — The Belpre branch of the Washington County Public ...