COLLEGEVILLE — Wearing leather work gloves, thick-soled leather boots and a blaze-orange vest, Brother Walter Kieffer, OSB, strode into the sugarbush armed with a modified chainsaw. In late February, ...
Maple sugaring — or syrup — season is approaching, and soon enough you'll notice buckets clinging to maple trees as hobbyists and commercial operators begin collecting the sweet sap to make maple ...
“A sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter,” wrote John Burroughs in “Signs and Seasons,” 1896. Each winter during the 1980s Robert E. Lucas Intermediate School’s students participated in an annual ...
After many years of thinking about making maple syrup, I finally decided to give it a try. I read some information on the internet and contacted some people “in the know.” The best trees are the sugar ...