Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A leaf-shaped bottle of maple syrup beside a dish of maple syrup and a honeycomb wand - Pixel-Shot/Shutterstock North Americans ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. It generally takes between 20 and 100 gallons of sap to produce a gallon of pure maple syrup. The exact amount can vary dramatically based on ...

Perhaps one of the most common myths about trees, Rachael West said, is that they go dormant during the winter months, falling into hibernation until spring rolls around. But West, founder of Eating ...

HISTORY: Who would think of sticking something in a maple tree and boiling the sap to make syrup? The Iroquois Indians have an answer to this old legend. The story begins on a day in early March.

Bill and Amy Proulx continue the New England tradition of cooking maple syrup in Ashford, CT. Bill and Amy Proulx started making maple syrup in 1993 with 20 sap buckets and a lasagna pan in the ...

When Brian Hughes began collecting maple syrup last year, in early March, he had to plow trails through snow that was thigh high. This year, when he started on the last day of January, he was driving ...