“I have a dozen maple trees at home. I tap those and make about 2 or 3 gallons of maple syrup,” he said. With the efficient evaporator in the nature center’s Sap and Honey House, Wilson can make 2 ...

Mark and Susan Lockwood have made a hobby of tapping maple trees on their Seekonk property each year for the past 24 years. In a homemade evaporator, gallons of sap are boiled all day long at the end ...

Last March, Chris LaPlante of Rochester discovered that the maple tree in her yard was dripping sticky sap on the family’s car. While some people might be annoyed, LaPlante realized, "We could make ...

Ever wanted to make your own maple syrup? With a few tools of the trade and a maple tree in the backyard, you’re just a few easy steps away from coating your waffles and cakes in homemade maple syrup.

SILVER CREEK, Neb. (KOLN) - When the conditions are just right, Thomas Hemmer taps plastic spiles into sugar maple and silver maple trees to draw out sap the sap. He uses it to make his own maple ...

Breakfast is my favorite meal of the day, and a hearty plate of blueberry pancakes or Belgian waffles isn’t complete without ...

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 ...

Forester and maple syrup expert Steven Roberge places a lid on a bucket collecting sap in his Peterborough backyard. It’s maple season in New Hampshire, and it’s not too late to become a maple ...

Maple syrup is always a pantry staple, but its presence is especially welcome during the cold weather season, when pancakes are a weekend breakfast must and root vegetables welcome a drizzle of this ...