Sugar maple and red maple are the most common trees to tap, but syrup can also be made from silver maple, black maple and boxelder.

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 ...

The annual tapping of regional trees is going on now. Two local growers share learned wisdom about how it’s done combining old and new techniques.

Stockton University is using $1 million in federal grants to explore whether a viable syrup industry can be created using a species of maple tree common to southern N.J. Ryan Hegarty, assistant ...

New Jersey may soon establish a viable maple syrup industry through a new project. Stockton University in southern New Jersey is leading efforts to produce syrup using red maples, which are prevalent ...

Welcome to New Jersey, known around the world for Tony Soprano, Turnpike tolls, chemical plants, and ... maple syrup? If a university in the southern part of the state has its way, the sticky sweet ...

Maybury Farm in Northville offers wagon rides, tree tapping, and syrup tastings during Michigan's maple syrup season every ...

Maple syrup making time has just about arrived in our area. Maple syrup makers make preparations well in advance in order to be ready for this hectic time of year. Weather conditions need to be just ...

What do maple syrup and rubber have in common? They are both made from tree sap (kind of like tree blood)! However, only maple syrup is an edible sweet treat. Maple syrup is a natural sweetener with ...

LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — Maple syrup season has returned, and hundreds of people celebrated Saturday at the Fenner Maple Syrup Festival in Lansing. It was a fundraiser for Fenner Nature Center, and ...