Maple syrup is nature's nectar, but you've probably noticed that the real deal comes with a high price tag. Given how much ...

As March fills with maple syrup festivals, we come to learn how maple trees aren't at all like factories or franchises. No. The sap they produce and its sugar content — all necessary to boil it down ...

The team at Three Rivers Park District joined KARE 11 Saturday to show us the process of making maple syrup from tapping the trees to boiling the sap and finally enjoying the sweet and sticky final ...

Lisa Gauker held up a bottle of store-bought pancake syrup. “Is this really maple syrup?” the recreation and special events supervisor for the Berks County Department of Parks and Recreation asked.

Mark and Susan Lockwood have made a hobby of tapping maple trees on their Seekonk property each year for the past 24 years. In a homemade evaporator, gallons of sap are boiled all day long at the end ...

From late November to early March, Ella Smoot can usually be found in one of two places: the forest or the sugar shack. Like all maple syrup producers, her winter is a rush of running sap—cold ...

After the harvesting process comes the real work of maple sugaring, which is concentrating the sap into delicious maple syrup. Commercial producers use reverse osmosis, and Kinnan says he is ...

Candace Johnson has often eaten the store-bought blend of chemicals and artificial flavors that sells as maple syrup, but she’d never tasted the real thing. So on Saturday, the 17-year-old and her ...

Students visit local maple sugar makers to learn how maple sap is collected and boiled down into maple syrup, and they also study cooking with it, in the kitchens of the six restaurants the school ...

Maple syrup has been a cherished ingredient in North American culinary traditions for centuries, from well before the advent of European settlers. Native American tribes found that they could produce ...