Ever wanted to make your own maple syrup? With a few tools of the trade and a maple tree in the backyard, you’re just a few easy steps away from coating your waffles and cakes in homemade maple syrup.

If you have a mature maple tree in your yard, it might be a good opportunity to try to make homemade maple syrup. You can ...

You might not have noticed, but drop by drop, the first harvest of 2021 has begun. There's more sunlight. Maple trees and their shallow roots break their dormancy, and the sap will be ready to rise up ...

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 ...

Maple syrup is famously made in spring, when below-freezing nights followed by warm days cause the sap stored in a sugar maple’s trunk to flow up and out of the tree and into buckets or plastic tubing ...

Do you have any maple trees in your yard? How about a free weekend in February or March and maybe a backyard grill? Oh, and a lot of patience. If you do, you might be able to make some homemade maple ...

For this week’s library column, I’ve given in to my sweet tooth. December 17 th is National Maple Syrup Day; the origins of ...