Erie County is home to sugar maple trees and Asbury Woods has a program to help people make their own syrup at home.

After the harvesting process comes the real work of maple sugaring, which is concentrating the sap into delicious maple syrup. Commercial producers use reverse osmosis, and Kinnan says he is ...

Early settlers quickly caught on and began producing maple syrup. It quickly found its way in the trade systems, and communities were setting up so-called sugar camps. Although the techniques of ...

SILVER CREEK, Neb. (KOLN) - When the conditions are just right, Thomas Hemmer taps plastic spiles into sugar maple and silver maple trees to draw out sap the sap. He uses it to make his own maple ...

Native Americans of northeastern North America have been harvesting maple sap and boiling it into syrup and sugar for many centuries. Various tribes have legends of how this sweet bounty of the ...

From late November to early March, Ella Smoot can usually be found in one of two places: the forest or the sugar shack. Like all maple syrup producers, her winter is a rush of running sap—cold ...

Lisa Gauker held up a bottle of store-bought pancake syrup. “Is this really maple syrup?” the recreation and special events supervisor for the Berks County Department of Parks and Recreation asked.