Under a towering cover of trees, a farm worker hammers a spout into a sugar maple with a brisk toc-toc-toc that breaks the forest silence. Sap soon starts to drip out, in a late-winter ritual that has ...

Spring is the most wonderful time of the year for biology professor and maple syrup lover Stephen Heard. Every March, he taps the four sugar maples in his Fredericton backyard, and collects between ...