Plenty of young kids tap a few maple trees, inspired by the sweet promise of maple syrup. Few become enamored with it to the ...

Maple syrup is a one-ingredient food. Only one thing goes into making it: the sap of maple trees collected in early spring.

Maple syrup is one of those foods that conjures up particular imagery – the trees, the color red, the forests, the sap ...

Narrator: You'd never guess it, but tucked in this Vermont forest under a couple feet of snow is a giant maple-syrup farm ... spend two months putting plastic taps into each one of these trees ...

Spring comes in fits and starts in northern Minnesota. The white of winter is slowly replaced by shriveled, brown snow banks. It rains, then snows. The gulls return, and it snows again. The ...

Selling bikes is interesting, but being in the woods in spring, gathering maple ... one tap and one bag, or bucket, affixed to a single tree, rather than the more complex plastic tubing systems ...

Maple syrup production is not traditionally associated with western states. Most maple syrup in the United States comes from ...