FRANKLIN – About a dozen fifth-grade students crowded around Michael DeMain and a 175-year-old maple tree in the forest preserve surrounding the Wehr Nature Center in Franklin, eager to collect sap on ...

The nights are still cold but days are (mostly) becoming milder. That means it’s time to tap into those maple trees to begin the process of converting the sticky sap into delicious maple syrup or ...

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 ...

Maple sap forms a droplet at the opening of a spile on Feb.23 as the maple syrup season begins in Quasqueton. (Orlan Love/correspondent) Buy Photo The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using ...

Have you always wanted to learn to tap maple trees to make your own maple syrup? Then you’re in luck because maple syrup ...

Maple Day is scheduled to happen (rain or shine) from 10 am until 2 pm on Saturday, March 1, 2025, which coincides with the ...

AUBURNDALE, Wis. (WSAW) --- Students at Auburndale Middle/High School learn maple tree tapping in their school forest as part of their Agriculture class in what the teacher says is a decent maple sap ...

SO WHAT WE WOULD NEED TO DO IS ACTUALLY GET IT ALL THE WAY DOWN TO HERE. SO THAT SO THAT THE SPILE WILL FIT IN. ALL RIGHT. SO IS IT. ALL RIGHT. LET’S SEE. ALL RIGHT. I’D RATHER HIT. YEAH. USING AN ...