The sight of a steady drip of sap brought elation to Paula Babel as she lifted a metal bucket hanging off a spile in a sugar maple tree that she calls the “queen of trees.” She poured the crystal ...

ASHFORD, Conn. (WFSB) - Maple syrup season is officially underway, and the weather couldn’t be more ideal for sugar houses across the state to start tapping their trees. At River’s Edge Sugar House in ...

Maple syrup is a sweetener made from the sap of maple trees, primarily sugar maples, by boiling the sap to concentrate the sugar. According to the “Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America,” Native ...