FRANKLIN – About a dozen fifth-grade students crowded around Michael DeMain and a 175-year-old maple tree in the forest preserve surrounding the Wehr Nature Center in Franklin, eager to collect sap on ...

Have you always wanted to learn to tap maple trees to make your own maple syrup? Then you’re in luck because maple syrup season is almost here. The 2025 maple syrup season is on the horizon, so now’s ...

“Nature has its own way of providing us with sweeteners.” That’s according to Five Rivers MetroParks, which has been tapping its maple trees for sap at Carriage Hill MetroPark, located at 7850 E.

Mountain Lakes, NJ residents Mikayla, 9, Hailey, 6, and Courtney Fallon join Danika, 10, Serena, 5, and Trina Kincey for a taste-test different delicious syrups, including syrup made at the Great ...

AUBURNDALE, Wis. (WSAW) --- Students at Auburndale Middle/High School learn maple tree tapping in their school forest as part of their Agriculture class in what the teacher says is a decent maple sap ...

Sunday felt like a true changing of the seasons with temperatures ranging in the 50s. The sun and heat brought a big spring melt for most of the metro, which was perfect conditions for one of ...

Quite a few of my friends have been grumbling about how they can’t wait for winter to be over and that they are ready for spring. I was surprised by this. I feel the opposite. It feels to me like we ...

Ohio State has been making maple syrup for years. They hope it brings more people to the sustainable crop. On a cold January morning, Ohio State University assistant professor Gabriel Karns is outside ...