MONTPELIER, Vt. — Henry Marckres is a cop with no gun or gold badge. The tools of his trade are his eyes, his taste buds and a hydrometer. His beat: Vermont maple syrup. Marckres is technically a ...

Von Salmi has committed 38 years to the art of maple syrup, and neither age nor climate change will stop him from practicing his favorite hobby. In 1987, Salmi built his family's home on 15 acres of ...

Pure maple syrup is a beautiful thing, sweet, with complex flavors, and it can only come from boiling the sap from a tree, a time-consuming process dependent on the weather. This year was off to a ...

However, sugar content varies year to year and from tree to tree. Other maples and even a few non-maple trees are sometimes tapped such as red maple, silver maple, boxelder and birch. Schwartz has ...

LYKENS TOWNSHIP - On a sunny day in early spring, a cloud hung over the small building between Knauss Road and Ohio 100. That cloud was steam, not smoke, but it was nevertheless a signal: It meant the ...

Few things in nature are as sweet as real maple syrup, which is made from the sap of a maple tree. It takes about 40 gallons of sap to make one gallon of maple syrup. Does maple syrup go bad? Maple ...