Forest or sugar bush maple trees are the source of maple sugar sap used to produce maple syrup. The decline of these trees should be of concern to maple syrup producers and consumers. According to ...

But if you have a taste for maple syrup, you may think of collecting sap from a sugar maple tree. Sugar maple trees produce sap during the summer, which gets stored through the winter in their roots.

One of the oldest crops in North America was being harvested this month a few miles up the Minnesota River from New Ulm. Fred ...

Of course, in the summer months ... faster-growing trees like birch may out-compete the sugar maple. Selective logging, like that done in many parts of our region, also contributes to secondary ...

City Park will dedicate the new Plymouth Sugar Shack at the park April 5 during the fourth annual Maple Festival. According ...

Each spring, students and staff from the Myaamia Center and students and staff from the Western Program tap ten sugar maple trees in Peabody Woods. Maple sugaring, the process of making maple sugar ...

The center taps a handful of sugar maple trees each year as part of its educational programs. Finley said if they collect 40 gallons of sap in a season, it might produce just one gallon of ...

The sugar shack was built with the help of the Plymouth Maple Association, local businesses and Plymouth High School students. The shack will be used to boil sap collected from maple trees in the ...