SOMERVILLE — On a cold, gray Saturday in March, people of all ages made their way to the Somerville Community Growing Center to attend the 24th annual Maple Boil Down. Over the course of the day, 525 ...

Native Americans of northeastern North America have been harvesting maple sap and boiling it into syrup and sugar for many centuries. Various tribes have legends of how this sweet bounty of the ...

DALTON — It’s late winter, the time of year when the friends and neighbors of Geno DiNicola enjoy his homemade maple syrup — harvested from the sap of maple trees near his house and boiled down in his ...

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 ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich — It’s as much a Michigan tradition as playing euchre or using your hand as a map. We make maple syrup here, and this time of the year is typically the sweet spot for making the ...

It’s maple season, and with it comes all the joys and frustrations of making the tasty, sweet maple nectar. As I cope with a broken reverse osmosis machine and wait for my maple lines to thaw, I’m ...