After the harvesting process comes the real work of maple sugaring, which is concentrating the sap into delicious maple syrup. Commercial producers use reverse osmosis, and Kinnan says he is ...

One of my fondest memories as a teenager was working for a neighbor in his woods gathering sap to make maple syrup. This began first with “tapping” maple trees using a hand-drill and hammering in ...

Selling bikes is interesting, but being in the woods in spring, gathering maple sap, is addictive, a distinction Mark and Melinda Spinler know well. The Spinlers live about 7 miles outside of Grand ...

See how maple syrup goes from tree to table and get involved with the process with these maple syrup events in Minnesota. NOTE: This list will be updated for 2025 during the first week of March! Did ...

What do you think of when you think of spring? You know spring is near when the days lengthen and the temperature begins to warm. You may think of the robin as the first sign of spring. But if you ...

This story is a product of the Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk, an independent reporting network based at the University of Missouri in partnership with Report for America, with major funding ...

SEBEKA, Minn. — Maple sap has been dripping, and in some cases gushing, weeks earlier than normal for Minnesota’s maple syrup producers. The maple woods are normally just waking up and beginning to ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Selling bikes is interesting, but being in the woods in spring, gathering maple sap, is addictive, a distinction Mark and Melinda Spinler know well. The Spinlers live about 7 miles ...