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How to make your own maple syrup

Before I was born, my parents started tapping a big red maple in our front yard in midcoast Maine. You can tap any kind of maple — not just the sugar maples, though they have the highest sugar content ... read more

How sweet it is! LAS celebrates 25 years of making maple syrup

HAMPTON FALLS — What started on a hot plate in Jim Cutting’s classroom more than 25 years ago, grew into a maple sugaring tradition and one of the town's harbingers of spring. Ask any one of the ... read more

In spring, thoughts turn to making maple syrup

Q: I’ve been seeing a lot of blue bags hanging from trees in the area lately. What are they for? - John from Warwick A: Well, John, the short answer is that those bags are most likely hanging on sugar ... read more

Meghan Markle and Prince Harry Learn How to Make Canadian Maple Taffy for Commonwealth Day

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex met with a group of Canadians in London who showed them how they make maple taffy using syrup cooled on snow on Monday. It came as Harry and Meghan visited Canada House ... read more

Maple syrup season in Philadelphia: How and where to get it fresh from the tree

Even a sugar maple’s sap — which, at 2 percent sugar, has the highest sugar content of any maple tree — tastes watery. To make syrup, the sap must be boiled down until the remaining liquid is 66 ... read more

Family taps their maple trees to make syrup in Dauphin County

After 3 hours at the fire outside and another hour at the stove inside, a Dauphin County family has a beautiful quart of freshly made maple syrup for their pancakes. Maple sugaring is like that: a ... read more

Tapping maple trees to make syrup

When will the snow melt? Looking back in my garden journals, we have had snow cover until the middle of March in many of the years. I usually see the first robin about March 15. I remember because it ... read more

Drip, Drip, Drip: It's Time to Make Maple Syrup the Old-Fashioned Way

BASKING RIDGE, NJ - A popular - and sweet - demonstration for both children and adults showing how maple sugar -- used for real maple syrup -- is produced from male trees will return for its seasonal ... read more

How to Make Maple Syrup

We had a place in Vermont with maple trees out back. During a particular time of year in Vermont, late winter, there is no good reason to do anything outside. We were all about trying to get our kids ... read more

A vacation home in Potter County led to a business venture making maple syrup

Here's a recipe for success: Suction sticky sap from a tree and boil until syrupy. Among the exports sent to Europe by early American settlers, maple syrup was a favorite. It was unknown in Europe and ... read more

How to Make Maple Syrup

Last week, I wrote about the joys of backyard maple syrup making - the knowing-we-can-do-it satisfaction I get from making my own syrup. In this article, I share some of the how-to details so you can ... read more