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.

Maple season, also known as tapping season, runs from the end of February through mid-April.

The nights are still cold but days are (mostly) becoming milder. That means it’s time to tap into those maple trees to begin the process of converting the sticky sap into delicious maple syrup or ...

The annual tapping of regional trees is going on now. Two local growers share learned wisdom about how it’s done combining old and new techniques.

Have you always wanted to learn to tap maple trees to make your own maple syrup? Then you’re in luck because maple syrup ...

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AUBURNDALE, Wis. (WSAW) --- Students at Auburndale Middle/High School learn maple tree tapping in their school forest as part of their Agriculture class in what the teacher says is a decent maple sap ...

FRANKLIN – About a dozen fifth-grade students crowded around Michael DeMain and a 175-year-old maple tree in the forest preserve surrounding the Wehr Nature Center in Franklin, eager to collect sap on ...

A university in New Jersey is spending a $1 million grant from the US Department of Agriculture on testing the feasibility of a maple syrup industry in the Garden State. Stockton University is in its ...

See what happens at the Somerset County Maple Producers' annual tree tapping ceremony Feb. 28, marking the start of the 2026 sugar season.

Indiana maple syrup producers are adapting to changes in tapping season due to climate change but some worry the industry ...