Five student groups earned Green Grants to pursue campus sustainability projects this spring. Among the winners was the Maple ...

Hawley, Massachusetts is what happens, a tiny hilltop town in the Berkshire foothills where the population hovers around 300 souls and your cell phone signal goes to die. Rolling hills, old barns, and ...

Bill and Amy Proulx started making maple syrup in 1993 with 20 sap buckets and a lasagna pan in the driveway. Today, their River’s Edge Sugar House in Ashford, in northeastern Connecticut, cooks up ...

HAMPTON — Students at Hampton Academy and Marston School are getting hands‑on lessons in the science, tradition, and teamwork of maple sugaring. Over the final weeks of winter, students have learned ...

Horse-drawn bobsleds like this one were used to collect maple sap from the buckets. The large runners enabled the bobsled to operate on snow or in mud. In addition to hauling sap in large, staved ...

Canadians are famous for, and somewhat obsessed with, the deliciously sweet blood of trees. Finns make a savoury syrup from birch sap, and other people have been known to boil the sap of black walnut ...

Submitted Photos Pictured are juniors in the Conservation/Natural Resources Management program at the LoGuidice Educational Center. Students spent several weeks producing about 7 gallons of fresh ...

On March 3, UW-Platteville had the honor of hosting a guest lecture from the current president of the Ho-Chunk Nation, Jon Greendeer. While the lecture was part of the Land Ethic course given on ...

Leah Hopkins explains the process of making maple sugar to visitors. PHOTO: ASHER BEN-DASHAN On a recent partly sunny day in Saugus, a small crowd of people huddled around a table in the Breakheart ...

Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. PAWLET -- Brian Rawls of Valley View Maple surveyed his steaming sugar shack operation and said with a laugh, “This is a hobby gone wrong for me.” That ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. MIDDLEPORT — Even before leaves emerge, Heidi and Jason Wolf taste the sweetness of spring as they tap maple trees and begin ...