SOMERVILLE — On a cold, gray Saturday in March, people of all ages made their way to the Somerville Community Growing Center to attend the 24th annual Maple Boil Down. Over the course of the day, 525 ...

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 ...

It was early April, and his parents were boiling maple sap in the Western New York shack where they produced syrup and other maple-flavored goods. “It was pretty rustic,” Wightman says, “with just ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. How sweet this maple syrup season has been. Indeed, things are looking good for this ritual of late New England winters, according ...

This article was written by Martha Hayden and originally appeared on The Restless Viking website on April 1, 2025. Throughout North America in the crisp, early spring people gather around steamy pans ...

Mike Kinnan in Pepper Pike has been maple sugaring since 2017, when a friend from Michigan pointed out that the silver maple trees in his yard could be tapped to make syrup. After many hours of ...

The flow of sap will usually stop if the temperature goes above 50 degrees. The gathering of maple sap dates back to the American Indians, who were tapping maple trees long before the settlers arrived ...

Bill and Elaine Markham have been making maple syrup at the Mill Brook Sugarhouse on New Lenox Road for 46 years. They use reverse osmosis to take out 75 percent of the water and an oil boiler to ...