In the early days of the museum, the focus was on sharing old items collected by the Wells family, who founded Old Sturbridge Village. But around the 1970s, Simmons said, the village shifted into ...

Readfield nativeDavid Harriman, co-owner of Dead Stream Alpaca and Maple Farm with his wife, Karen, runs an 1,800-tap maple ...

Native Americans of northeastern North America have been harvesting maple sap and boiling it into syrup and sugar for many centuries. Various tribes have legends of how this sweet bounty of the ...

The spell of warm weather that started in late December got the maple sap running, and some of the state’s largest syrup producers are boiling it already. While sugar making is more commonly ...

GAYLORD, MI – Get your sweet tooth ready. It’s almost time for Michigan’s sweetest crop to be harvested. Maple syrup season is nearly upon us. Producers across the state have been using the recent ...

In theory, maple season should be ramping up because temperatures are now above freezing during the day and below freezing at night, which means the sugar maple sap is flowing. But with a foot or more ...

SOMERVILLE — On a cold, gray Saturday in March, people of all ages made their way to the Somerville Community Growing Center to attend the 24th annual Maple Boil Down. Over the course of the day, 525 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A leaf-shaped bottle of maple syrup beside a dish of maple syrup and a honeycomb wand - Pixel-Shot/Shutterstock North Americans ...

Don’t let this grey, wet phase of winter get you down, Michiganders, the sweet return of spring is around the corner. Some of the first signs of spring are Michigan’s sugar maples waking up after ...

St. Joseph County Parks welcomes visitors to learn traditional sap-to-syrup process.