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 ...

You may think of the robin as the first sign of spring. But if you have a taste for maple syrup, you may think of collecting sap from a sugar maple tree. Sugar maple trees produce sap during the ...

Maple syrup: To replace processed sugar with maple syrup, substitute 2/3 cup of maple syrup for every 1 cup of sugar. You'll also want to reduce the quantity of liquids in the recipe by about 1/4 ...

Visitors to Blue Slope Country Museum, on March 4 and 5 gained a wealth of knowledge about the maple syrup-making process. According to Blue Slope matriarch Sandy Staebner, this year hasn’t been ...

Its sap is very similar to sugar maple sap. More: Maple sap flowing early this year as syrup being made at Malabar Farm Tapping is when you drill a hole into the tree no deeper than 1.5 inches.

Bruce Hopper grabs a bucket to be hung from a sugar maple tree the old-fashioned way. John Tlumacki/Globe Staff Last year he sold close to 300 gallons of maple syrup and this year looks just as ...

The old sugar maple sits next to the spring and the spring house, which we turned into a chicken coop — good and bad, I’ve observed, for while the maple’s maze of branches offers the ...

Its sap is very similar to sugar maple sap. More: Maple sap flowing early this year as syrup being made at Malabar Farm Tapping is when you drill a hole into the tree no deeper than 1.5 inches.

That allows the tree to suck up water to create sugar for the next day. Late February to early April is the typical maple tapping season. After that, nights are usually no longer freezing, so ...

Local sugar houses welcome spring with a Maple Weekend. By Kathleen D. Bailey Special to the Union Leader; Mar 13, 2024 Mar 13, 2024 Updated Apr 18, 2025; 3 min to read. Facebook; ...

Learn how to tap a maple tree and taste pure, local syrup at the Forest Preserve District of Kane County’s Maple Sugaring Days from noon to 3 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, March 2 and 3, at Creek ...

The sugar maple in 2022; photographs of the tree taken in 1942, top, and 1952; the tree’s bark; and its stump. Still, I hoped we could save her. Prune the dead limbs.