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 ...

The art of maple syrup production flows through generations of Dan Potter’s family history. His great-grandfather bought the family farm in rural Iowa in the late 1880s and cleared the land for ...

See how maple syrup goes from tree to table and get involved with the process with these maple syrup events in Minnesota. NOTE: This list will be updated for 2025 during the first week of March! Did ...

SEBEKA, Minn. — Maple sap has been dripping, and in some cases gushing, weeks earlier than normal for Minnesota’s maple syrup producers. The maple woods are normally just waking up and beginning to ...

In 2017, the Times-Standard published my article about producing syrup from Humboldt County bigleaf maples. I described maple syruping as fundamental to my Vermont and Québec youth, my homesickness ...

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 ...

This story is a product of the Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk, an independent reporting network based at the University of Missouri in partnership with Report for America, with major funding ...