"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Aaron Wightman was almost born in a sugarhouse. It was early April, and his parents were boiling 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Early settlers quickly caught on and began producing maple syrup. It quickly found its way in the trade systems, and communities were setting up so-called sugar camps. Although the techniques of ...

Alexander Watson likes his maple syrup on homemade pancakes, with a side of bacon. Take his word for it. He’s an expert in the field. A regional naturalist with the Department of Natural Resources at ...

It has been more than ten years since I made maple syrup in my backyard on a very small scale. The reasons why I quit were due to lack of time and more importantly, lack of firewood! This year I seem ...

Once the sap had been retrieved, the grunt work may have been over, but the long job of processing it was just beginning. When it dribbles from the tree, sap is anywhere from 1 to 3 percent sugar. To ...

It was early April, and his parents were boiling maple sap in the Western New York shack where they produced syrup and other maple-flavored goods. “It was pretty rustic,” Wightman says, “with just ...