This goes hand-in-hand with a renewed interest in learning how to tap maple trees for syrup. In 2021, for example, the New York Times reported that tapping backyard trees surged as a hobby among ...

It all starts with finding the right maple trees. While all maple tree species produce sap, sugar maples have the absolute best quality sap with the highest sugar content and is the one syrup make ...

N.H., backyard sugar house they call Babel’s Sugar Shack. Mason is a half-mile from the Massachusetts border, and the Babels’ expansive yard is filled with towering sugar maple trees.

Once the farm began selling trees in 2023, Liberty decided to see if he could use the property’s maple trees to make syrup on a commercial level, and attract more people to the farm.

If you live somewhere with maple trees, you’ve probably seen their striking helicopter seeds – made up of a seed pod attached to a delicate wing. Maple samaras’ unique design and spinning ...

PORTLAND, Maine — Maine Maple Sunday Weekend is here, a weekend for Mainers to get out, visit sugarhouses, and enjoy a sweet ...

One of the earliest events of the year, the First Taste of Spring Maple Syrup Festival is two weekends of tapping trees ... area and watch the best Backyard Maple Maker crowned.

We tapped 18 more trees, which yielded a combined 9 gallons ... of conversation among my 104,000 fellow members of the Backyard Maple Syrup Maker Facebook group. I tried to read up on the science ...

Lines are spread between trees to transport maple sap from the trees at Sugar ... of bringing home the book “Backyard Sugarin'.” He was excited by how simple it was. He said, “There ...