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 ...
Now that the days are warming and the nights are still cool, sap is flowing and signs of spring are here in Ontario. A couple of years ago we started making maple syrup on 25 acres in the heart of ...
As a child growing up in Canada, one of the best parts of winter would be to visit a sugar bush to tap some trees and make maple syrup snow candy at the end of the day. If that's something you dearly ...
You probably know maple syrup as a topping for pancakes and waffles, but the uses of this hearty sweetener go beyond breakfast. Although it’s ideal for morning treats and baked goods, maple syrup is ...
You might say starting your own maple syrup farm is too hard. Seven-year-old Sawyer Baptie would tell you you’re wrong. Walking out into the forest of Pinedale Maples with dad Scott, mom Lori, and ...
Maple syrup production is ramping up across the GTA and beyond just in time for the March break. The opportunity to learn about the sweet science of tapping trees and making maple syrup is a fun way ...
When Jean-Paul Echaquan talks about his grandfather who left Manawan every spring to go to the forest to collect maple sap, time stops. Suddenly, we see ourselves half a century earlier following the ...