SILVER CREEK, Neb. (KOLN) - When the conditions are just right, Thomas Hemmer taps plastic spiles into sugar maple and silver maple trees to draw out sap the sap. He uses it to make his own maple ...

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 ...

There are plenty of places to get in on the sweet tradition of turning maple-tree sap into syrup in southeastern Wisconsin ...

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 ...

Native Americans of northeastern North America have been harvesting maple sap and boiling it into syrup and sugar for many centuries. Various tribes have legends of how this sweet bounty of the ...

Maple syrup is among one of the oldest commodities produced in the United States. Northeastern Native Americans managed maple groves, tapped trees and gathered sap to make syrup when European ...

Sugar maple and red maple are the most common trees to tap, but syrup can also be made from silver maple, black maple and boxelder.