The University of Toledo has a class called Science and Policy of Foraging at the UToledo Stranahan Arboretum. This semester, they are harvesting tree sap and making maple syrup as one of their group ...

It may seem like niche science, but Wightman believes maple has a wide-reaching potential to satisfy America’s insatiable sweet tooth and buoy local economies. What’s more, a sugar bush—the term for a ...

Science teacher Mary Hartigan-Demers put donated buckets and taps up on a group of sugar maples across from the school this ...

What makes sap start running in late winter? And how do you tap a tree without harming it? Coming up at 9 a.m. on Thursday, ...

Forget about buckets. In recent years, maple syrup has been made with reverse osmosis sap extractors and air injectors. This week, the University of Vermont's Proctor Maple Research Center in ...

Twenty miles southwest of Cornell’s Ithaca campus grows a forest of sweet trees. The tubing at their trunks carry sugary sap awaiting to be transformed into a crowd-pleasing breakfast staple: maple ...

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You can get the sugar out of a lot of trees, but there's something special about the sugar maple. Its trunk is highly efficient at storing and... Mar 18, 2021 — You can get the sugar out of a lot of ...

New Hampshire sycamore sap boils down into syrup at researcher David Moore’s house in Lee. Credit: Annie Ropeik/NHPR This segment is part of The State of Science, a series featuring science stories ...

Vermonters’ near-cultlike reverence of maple syrup is part of who we are — not only in its consumption but its preparation ...

Most of us, when we think about maple syrup, picture rosy-cheeked New Englanders dressed in buffalo plaid, tree trunks slung with galvanized buckets, and steam pouring from a rudimentary shack ...