ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Maple Weekend, a celebration of New York State’s maple syrup industry, continues on Saturday into Sunday. It’s happening during the state’s maple tapping season. New York is the ...

Maple syrup has long been a staple of North American breakfasts, especially across the northeastern U.S. and eastern Canada, where its production originated. It’s made by boiling down sap collected ...

A sweet surprise in the woods! A sweet surprise in the woods! On an early spring walk, Evie came across a Sugar Maple tree that had been tapped—but not by people. Evie checks out the visitors this ...

By Peter Albert In 2017, the Times-Standard published my article about producing syrup from Humboldt County bigleaf maples. I ...

Pruning this sappy tree in early spring is basically an open invitation for destructive fungus and troublesome pests — here's ...

A beloved sugar maple slowly succumbed to disease. Today, it lives on in a new form. A beloved sugar maple slowly succumbed to disease. Today, it lives on in a new form. Corey Snyder, a wood turner in ...