ROCHESTER, N.Y. — The second and final Maple Weekend kicks off on Saturday. Around 160 farms, including dozens in the Finger Lakes region, are taking part in the annual celebration of New York State’s ...

Pure maple syrup is significantly more expensive than pancake syrup due to labor and equipment costs. Many maple syrup producers are driven by family tradition and passion rather than profit. A recent ...

This year's maple sap collection in Massachusetts contains more sugar than most years. Sweeter sap requires less boiling time, which leads to increased maple syrup production. Colder temperatures and ...

HIGHTOWN, Virginia — The woodpecker was the first sign of something strange underway. Ronnie Moyers heard the bird hammering in the woods one morning in late February, several weeks before the species ...

A bucket hangs from a maple tree to collect sap at the University of Minnesota Landscape Arboretum in Chaska, Minn., on Feb. 14. Unseasonably warm weather with temperatures above 50 degrees led staff ...

Sap from maple trees starts to flow in New England around this time of year. March is the most important month for the more than 300 maple producers in Massachusetts as they create more than 70,000 ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Maple farms across Western New York are preparing for New York State’s annual Maple Weekend, celebrating the best of the region’s maple confections and sharing a ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Maple Weekend, a series of two weekends to celebrate New York State’s maple syrup industry, kicks off on Saturday. Around 160 farms are taking part, including dozens in the Finger ...

Spencer Luthy, owner of Maplewood Farms in Harwinton, said this year he has nearly tripled his maple sap production, as the colder temperatures over winter and historic high temperatures of March have ...

Peak maple season is officially here in New England, ushering in the freezing nights and warmer days of March with the production of maple syrup. In New Hampshire, March is officially Maple Month, and ...

TUPPER LAKE — The Wild Center is welcoming the community to celebrate maple season and take part in one of the Adirondacks’ sweetest traditions with maple programming every weekend in March, special ...

New York Maple Weekends are returning later this March. The event is hosted by the New York State Maple Producers Association and is funded by the New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets.