Start harvesting maple syrup in your backyard by gathering your maple tree tapping supplies and use these instructions to build a maple sap evaporator from a barrel. Transforming sap into syrup is one ...

Have you always wanted to learn to tap maple trees to make your own maple syrup? Then you’re in luck because maple syrup ...

Last week’s freeze-thaw cycles meant that maple sap started to run. Below, we provide several ways that local parks will help you tap your own trees and make syrup. Did you know that you can make a ...

The nights are still cold but days are (mostly) becoming milder. That means it’s time to tap into those maple trees to begin the process of converting the sticky sap into delicious maple syrup or ...

Mark and Susan Lockwood have made a hobby of tapping maple trees on their Seekonk property each year for the past 24 years. In a homemade evaporator, gallons of sap are boiled all day long at the end ...

The steady tap, tap, tap of maple sap dripping into metal buckets is one of the sweetest harbingers of spring. “Spring is all about renewal, and maple sugaring is the perfect excuse to be outside ...

Cincinnati Parks’ Caldwell Nature Preserve will host a DIY Maple 101 event Saturday, Jan. 28th, from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.Live off the land and learn to make your own maple syrup. Participants will learn ...

Here’s what I love about my friend Bruce Boyd. He’s smart enough, and dumb enough, in exactly the right ratio. But Sal, you ask, what is the exact right ratio? It turns out that 35:1 is exactly the ...

That tap, tap, tapping you hear in ESF's Heiberg Forest isn't woodpeckers looking for insects in trees, it's the forest properties crew tapping trees as maple syrup season kicks off. The College's ...

I love winter and have been hoping for a lot more snow, which we got last week, but only after an unseasonably (record-smashing) warm spell. Much as I love winter and want to stay in the moment, that ...