From late November to early March, Ella Smoot can usually be found in one of two places: the forest or the sugar shack. Like all maple syrup producers, her winter is a rush of running sap—cold ...

Maple sugaring season has begun in Michigan, offering residents a chance to see how sap is harvested and turned into syrup. Michigan ranks fifth in the nation for maple syrup production, with hundreds ...

Use the sweet stuff to make a maple bourbon pie, to coat roasted Brussels sprouts or in the dressing for a kale salad.

We all know that foods like beans and cabbage may give us gas. There is one case, though, where gas gives us food. Fortunately, it’s not the same kind of gas. From roughly mid-February through the end ...

Every spring, maple trees are tapped in preparation for maple syrup season and producers across the state are getting ready. This weekend and next are New York’s maple weekends, which give people in ...

If not for maple syrup, March in Vermont would be all about mud season. Thank goodness that the grey days and muddy roads of early spring go hand-in-hand with one of Mother Nature’s most wonderful ...

In 2025, University of Vermont’s Extension Maple Program was awarded a grant ($199,942) from the Leahy Institute for Rural ...