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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 ...

Maple sap was discovered by Native Americans well before Europeans invaded the Americas. There is plenty of folklore around the discovery of the sap, including one Iroquois legend where a chief threw ...

Boiling maple sap into syrup is a time honored tradition in the Northeast, to the olfactory delight of anyone who has spent time in a steamy sugar house while inhaling the sweet maple scent of the ...

A leaf-shaped bottle of maple syrup beside a dish of maple syrup and a honeycomb wand - Pixel-Shot/Shutterstock North Americans know that when the days grow warmer and the evenings stay cold, it's ...

Maple syrup is nature's nectar, but you've probably noticed that the real deal comes with a high price tag. Given how much sap it takes to make, it makes sense.

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 ...