I love winter and have been hoping for a lot more snow, which we got last week, but only after an unseasonably (record-smashing) warm spell. Much as I love winter and want to stay in the moment, that ...

Maple syrup is famously made in spring, when below-freezing nights followed by warm days cause the sap stored in a sugar maple’s trunk to flow up and out of the tree and into buckets or plastic tubing ...

Maple syrup season is just getting underway, and clouds of steam rise from the evaporators Derik and Sue Zimmel have set up in the driveway of their Leech Lake cabin to boil away the excess liquid on ...

DEERBROOK (AP) — Jeremy Solin doesn't need a jacket right now on his family farm in northern Wisconsin. There's no snow blanketing the dead leaves in the grove of sugar maples. There, pails already ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For some, spring isn't marked by a calendar date. It begins with maple syrup. With freezing nights and warmer days, maple sap ...

Even though Somerset County is in the heart of winter, maple producers are already celebrating the oncoming spring. The annual Somerset County Maple Producers' Association tree-tapping ceremony is at ...

Maple syrup making time has just about arrived in our area. Maple syrup makers make preparations well in advance in order to be ready for this hectic time of year. Weather conditions need to be just ...

Penny Courser is used to a full house when she takes on the role of “maple hostess” at her father’s and uncle’s sugar house. But even Courser was surprised a few years ago when a van pulled up and ...

There’s just something about being in the mountains. Whether they’re becoming covered in autumnal tones or starting to show signs of spring’s new life, they're the place to be at each season's arrival ...