Maple Tree sap tapping has been difficult this year due to the record amount of snow and late spring start. Maple syrup farmers in the northland are waiting anxiously for the weather to warm up enough ...

For the second year in a row, students get hands-on experience tapping maple trees and the Environmental Learning Center (ELC ...

Maple syrup is among one of the oldest commodities produced in the United States. Northeastern Native Americans managed maple groves, tapped trees and gathered sap to make syrup when European ...

Perhaps one of the most common myths about trees, Rachael West said, is that they go dormant during the winter months, falling into hibernation until spring rolls around. But West, founder of Eating ...

SO WHAT WE WOULD NEED TO DO IS ACTUALLY GET IT ALL THE WAY DOWN TO HERE. SO THAT SO THAT THE SPILE WILL FIT IN. ALL RIGHT. SO IS IT. ALL RIGHT. LET’S SEE. ALL RIGHT. I’D RATHER HIT. YEAH. USING AN ...

Moorhead - The box elder may be the Rodney Dangerfield of the tree world. Dismissed for its irregular form, weak wood and association with box elder bugs, the lowly tree gets no respect. But the ...

The nights are still cold but days are (mostly) becoming milder. That means it’s time to tap into those maple trees to begin the process of converting the sticky sap into delicious maple syrup or ...

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 ...

If you visited White Lake School in White Lake, Wisconsin, during the winter, you might come across a group of students pounding pegs into three sugar maples on the front lawn. The trees are massive, ...

One intriguing finding was that trees under high vacuum had slightly higher levels of carbohydrates in early summer, meaning that perhaps the trees mobilized reserves to accommodate for the additional ...