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 ...

The spell of warm weather that started in late December got the maple sap running, and some of the state’s largest syrup producers are boiling it already. While sugar making is more commonly ...

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 ...

In this video, we focus on making maple syrup while taking care of tasks around the cabin during the colder days when the sap is not running, including collecting drinking water from our stream. After ...

Spring can be an exciting time to start getting outside after a long, cold winter in North Dakota. And what better reason than if there is sweet maple syrup as an end result? While we don’t have lush ...

This story was originally featured on Outdoor Life. There are windows of opportunity in nature, and one of my annual favorites is “sugaring time.” In late winter, tree sap begins to flow, and from the ...