Five student groups earned Green Grants to pursue campus sustainability projects this spring. Among the winners was the Maple ...

A few days later, with some prodding from my daughter, we launched our own maple syrup enterprise. Each year for the next several years, my family and I enjoyed this rewarding experience while ...

Few breakfasts are more satisfying than a stack of fluffy pancakes or waffles generously smothered with butter and real-deal maple syrup (the stuff that comes from trees). However, like many of life's ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. How sweet this maple syrup season has been. Indeed, things are looking good for this ritual of late New England winters, according ...

Maple syrup is a sweetener made from the sap of maple trees, primarily sugar maples, by boiling the sap to concentrate the sugar. According to the “Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America,” Native ...

Pancakes, maple treats, and boiling demonstrations await visitors across the state. See sugarhouses near you. Just a half-mile over the Massachusetts line, Jeff and Paula Babel are busy boiling down ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This group of young workers (and canine companion) are gathering sap collected from hanging metal pails for transport to the ...

OLD TOWN — When warm days follow freezing nights, sap begins to run in maple trees across the University of Maine Forest in Old Town. Students and staff haul buckets of the clear liquid through snow ...

March has arrived, and with it comes the maple-producing season! This annual event is a sign of spring in many places and unseasonably warm temperatures (at least in the Northeast and Upper Midwest) ...