In this trip, Back Down the Pennsylvania Road, Mike Stevens takes us to East Canton for the sweet process of gathering sap ...

Mike Stevens went to East Canton in March of 1993 to see the process of gathering sap to make maple syrup.

While production is much larger today, maple syrup making remains a local, often family tradition in maple making regions, ...

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 ...

One of my fondest memories as a teenager was working for a neighbor in his woods gathering sap to make maple syrup. This began first with “tapping” maple trees using a hand-drill and hammering in ...

The typical timeframe for gathering sap from tapped maple trees, at least in my neck of the woods, is March 1 to April 1. This year, however, folks I know in the maple syrup world were tapping their ...

Inconsistent spring weather has slowed maple tree sap flows by roughly two thirds likely pushing the full syrup harvest back ...

Minnesota maple syrup makers Miriam and Dave Rogotzke, prepare for a promising sap season with consistent optimal weather ...

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 ...

Velvet Hollow Sugar Works, Swain Family Farm, The Farm at Rowe Hill and Carver's Maple Farm are all open for drop-ins.

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 ...