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Lisa Gauker held up a bottle of store-bought pancake syrup. “Is this really maple syrup?” the recreation and special events supervisor for the Berks County Department of Parks and Recreation asked.
From late November to early March, Ella Smoot can usually be found in one of two places: the forest or the sugar shack. Like all maple syrup producers, her winter is a rush of running sap—cold ...
All Wisconsin crops are impacted by the weather, and that includes maple syrup. Maple sap collection involves drilling into mature trees, with modern methods like vacuum systems and pipeline networks ...
The Bonneyville Mill is giving you the unique opportunity to make your own maple syrup at the mill's Baldwin One Room School this Saturday. According to event officials, all participants will learn ...
LaMuth Middle School students are getting a taste of how they can apply science lessons in their own backyards. Seventh-graders at the Riverside district school have been working with staff members ...
CADILLAC — Here in the mitten it’s officially maple syrup season and what better way to kick off the season with a demonstration on how you can extract sap from any maple tree on your property with ...
Nigel Manley knows his maple. The native Englishman and senior outreach manager for The Rocks Estate in Bethlehem can determine how many gallons of sap it takes to make a gallon of maple syrup, and he ...
GORHAM, NY — Those darn squirrels seem to get into everything, even the plastic tubing that leads from a small, wooded area on the Marcus Whitman school campus to a new red-painted sugarhouse. Earlier ...
When the high temperatures rise above freezing and the daily lows stay below freezing, the sap starts to run in maple trees. On April 6 at Maplewood State Park near Pelican Rapids, Minn., the ...