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 ...

Selling bikes is interesting, but being in the woods in spring, gathering maple sap, is addictive, a distinction Mark and Melinda Spinler know well. The Spinlers live about 7 miles outside of Grand ...

What do you think of when you think of spring? You know spring is near when the days lengthen and the temperature begins to warm. You may think of the robin as the first sign of spring. But if you ...

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 ...

The potential for warmer spring temperatures during maple season creates concerns about how to keep sap cool. With a grant from the Northern New York Agricultural Development Program, Uihlein Maple ...

Many aren't fans of the late winter months, but this is the time of year where mother nature likes to sweeten things up. It's sap collecting season and Maple Sugar Days is happening this weekend in ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Selling bikes is interesting, but being in the woods in spring, gathering maple sap, is addictive, a distinction Mark and Melinda Spinler know well. The Spinlers live about 7 miles ...

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 ...

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