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 ...

A leaf-shaped bottle of maple syrup beside a dish of maple syrup and a honeycomb wand - Pixel-Shot/Shutterstock North Americans know that when the days grow warmer and the evenings stay cold, it's ...

A new test developed by researchers at Carleton University to detect low-quality sap is being hailed as a solution to prevent thousands of litres of maple syrup from going down the drain every spring.

A small maple syrup farm in Essex County was busy boiling its first batch of maple sap this week — but it plans to turn it into more than just syrup. Ruscom Maple Products, owned and operated by Rob ...

The sight of a steady drip of sap brought elation to Paula Babel as she lifted a metal bucket hanging off a spile in a sugar maple tree that she calls the “queen of trees.” She poured the crystal ...

In this video, we focus on making maple syrup while taking care of tasks around the cabin during the colder days when the sap is not running, including collecting drinking water from our stream. After ...

It’s a sure sign of spring in the province of Quebec when daytime temperatures warm enough that the sap in maple trees begins to move. Ideally, temperatures consistently rise above zero centigrade and ...

Maple syrup has been a cherished ingredient in North American culinary traditions for centuries, from well before the advent of European settlers. Native American tribes found that they could produce ...