Erie County is home to sugar maple trees and Asbury Woods has a program to help people make their own syrup at home.

ST. LOUIS PARK, Minn. — A tasty treat is in season across Minnesota and western Wisconsin. Maple syrup is getting bottled up, and it can pack a sweet punch. What's the healthiest way to consume sugar?

Maple sugar season is underway in northern Ohio and the future of the sugar maple (acer saccharum) may be in question. Forest or sugar bush maple trees are the source of maple sugar sap used to ...

A beloved sugar maple slowly succumbed to disease. Today, it lives on in a new form. A beloved sugar maple slowly succumbed to disease. Today, it lives on in a new form. Corey Snyder, a wood turner in ...

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Shortbread cookies are delicious and fun to make, but what if you are out of sugar? There is a sweet ingredient that makes an ...

These three maples have somewhat similar-looking leaves. On the surface, you may think this is simply an academic exercise. But if you care about invasive plants and local ecology, this distinction is ...

An etching from an 1879 edition of Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper shows men collecting sap outside Rutland, Vermont. Vermonters originally made maple sugar, rather than syrup, because it kept ...

Some of us have never gotten over the trauma unleashed by Oprah Winfrey’s 1990s admission that she once drenched hot-dog buns in maple syrup when desperate for a snack. Effective, to be sure, but ...

Plymouth City Park will dedicate its new sugar shack April 5 at the fourth annual Maple Festival. The sugar shack was built with the help of the Plymouth Maple Association, local businesses and ...

Penny Courser is used to a full house when she takes on the role of “maple hostess” at her father’s and uncle’s sugar house. But even Courser was surprised a few years ago when a van pulled up and ...