When sugar shacks get busy boiling maple sap into liquid gold, we know spring is around the corner. The annual ritual has taken place for thousands of years, beginning with the Indigenous peoples who ...

Like the syrup itself, amateur and commercial maple syrup producers are gushing this year. Stephen Heard is a Fredericton-based professor of biology and a maple syrup lover. He had a slow start to the ...

It was early April, and his parents were boiling maple sap in the Western New York shack where they produced syrup and other maple-flavored goods. “It was pretty rustic,” Wightman says, “with just ...

Winter Camping allows for unique experiences, such as making maple syrup candy on the snow. Here's how I make Maple Taffy over a campfire - with or without a thermometer! That’s been something of a ...

Tom Shaw still has the board on which his great-grandfather wrote yearly records of Shaws’ first boiling day. Although the heart of the season – mid-March – hasn’t changed since 1904, this year the ...

London’s cool spring weather has proven to be a boon for local maple syrup producers. Adam Robson, of Rolling Ridge Maple Products, said, “so far, the quality (of the syrup) has been exceptional. The ...

Janet Perry isn't dependent on supermarkets or industrial operations for her maple fix; she's been tapping trees in her own backyard and boiling down that experience into memories for years. "We can ...