For weeks, industrial boilers and evaporators have been pumping full steam ahead as maple syrup season in western Massachusetts continues. It's a sweet enterprise that one family in Belchertown has ...
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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 ...
Mark and Susan Lockwood have made a hobby of tapping maple trees on their Seekonk property each year for the past 24 years. In a homemade evaporator, gallons of sap are boiled all day long at the end ...
When Randy Loch began his maple syrup business with his father in 1981, they started with 50 buckets hanging off maple trees. They boiled the sap over an open fire in a sap house made from ...
New Jersey isn’t nearly as famous as Vermont for maple syrup, although native sugar maple trees grow in our state’s north and central counties, and many small farms tap trees for syrup. South Jersey?
The Martins began tapping in January, much earlier than the traditional sugaring season start. Warming winters have shifted the timing and length of maple sugaring season in Wisconsin, the ...