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 ...

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 ...

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 ...