Indigenous peoples taught European colonizers how to tap maple trees to make maple syrup. For this Menominee family, it's a ...

Cornell University’s Uihlein Maple Research Forest in Lake Placid tries to be on the cutting edge of syrup-making innovations ...

The collection of sap from maple trees has begun, and while the up and down temperatures, with deeper freezes at night, might ...

Maple trees require moisture from snowfall and freezing temperatures at night followed by warmer days to sap. Recent years ...

MapleFest at Michigan State University’s Tollgate Farm in Novi, which was held March 7-8, celebrates the farm’s maple syrup ...

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

Daniel Gardner uses a mallet to bang in a sap spile into a maple tree on his property. Gardner’s Sugar House is one of ...

Collecting sap and making your own maple syrup may seem like a daunting task, but it may be more accessible than you think. “Demystifying” the process is one of the main goals of the Kemp Station ...

This article looks at five things we learned from Michigan's maple syrup farmers in a recent in-depth look at ice storm ...

The maple syrup season was in full swing. That was March 26, 2025. The next day, MLive chief meteorologist Mark Torregrossa forecasted an ice storm. In the days that followed, everything changed. A ...

Temperatures in Erie were colder than usual in February and warmer than usual in the first half of March. Sugar makers have ...