AVERILL PARK, NY (WRGB) — As we head now into the late part of winter, it's the time of the season that typically begins the tapping of maple trees for sap used to make pure maple syrup. However, the ...

Dennis Snook, owner of Paddy Mountain Sugar Shack in Millmont, Union County, usually marks Valentine’s Day as the start day to tap his 375 sugar maple trees. But this year, he tapped on Jan. 27. Just ...

Maple syrup season is just getting underway, and clouds of steam rise from the evaporators Derik and Sue Zimmel have set up in the driveway of their Leech Lake cabin to boil away the excess liquid on ...

After wild temperature swings in February, Hardwick Sugar Shack owners Joe and Megan Raskett aren’t sure how much longer the maple sugaring season will last. The Rasketts started boiling their maple ...

Traditionally, syrup producers in Pennsylvania would tap in mid- to late-February, production would peak in mid-March, and the season would end in early April. Herald-Leader, file Dennis Snook, owner ...