Steam rises from an evaporator at the Branon Family Maple Orchards sugarhouse in Fairfield on Dec. 20, 2024. File photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger This story by Joslyn McIntyre was first published in ...

Are we at 100 inches of snowfall yet? When we were past 75 inches, I happened to visit Danny and Thuan at Fitchburg’s legendary Millbury Fish Market. Our younger child “was out of seaweed snacks and ...

This year's maple sap collection in Massachusetts contains more sugar than most years. Sweeter sap requires less boiling time, which leads to increased maple syrup production. Colder temperatures and ...

Northern Michigan’s sugar maples stood tall and strong, sap flowing from taps into lines and collection buckets to be boiled down into the state’s sweetest crop. The maple syrup season was in full ...

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 ...

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BUCKLAND, Mass. (WWLP) – March is Maple Month in Massachusetts and local officials held a ceremonial tree tapping on Friday to kick off the sugaring season in Buckland. Maple season has already begun ...

Unseasonably warm spring weather could shorten the maple syrup season. Ideal conditions for sap flow are cold nights followed by moderately warm days. Some local producers have expanded from a hobby ...

Peak maple season is officially here in New England, ushering in the freezing nights and warmer days of March with the production of maple syrup. In New Hampshire, March is officially Maple Month, and ...