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 ...

Peter Kuitenbrouwer is a journalist and Registered Professional Forester who holds a Master of Forest Conservation from the University of Toronto. On the farm in west Quebec where we settled in my ...

Things are getting a lot busier a lot sooner at Dumfries Maples. It's barely March, but already the sap is running at the maple farm about 40 kilometres west of Fredericton — and has been since late ...

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 ...

The Harbour House Hotel, Restaurant and Organic Farm on Saltspring Island is hosting its fifth annual Maple Syrup Day on Sunday. The event attracts hundreds of visitors hoping to sample the sweet ...

With the weather warming, the sap in the Assiniboine Food Forest is beginning to flow and tours will soon be available to the public, allowing them to learn firsthand how maple syrup is created. As we ...

Gold Shaw Farm demonstrates an easy maple syrup evaporator making big sap boils. Rupert Murdoch warns judge of Donald Trump’s ...

Rich Focht owns Hummingbird Ranch in Staatsburg, NY. They make maple syrup, maple creams and maple sugar. According to Rich, only 2% of sap is sugar. It takes 50 gallons of sap to make just 1 gallon ...