Weather conditions haven’t been ideal for backyard maple syrup makers this season, but local sugar shacks are still boiling and selling across the state.

Native Americans of northeastern North America have been harvesting maple sap and boiling it into syrup and sugar for many centuries. Various tribes have legends of how this sweet bounty of the ...

The beginning of spring brings many pleasant aromas, but an underrated one is the sweet, woody scent of boiling maple sap.

This article was written by Martha Hayden and originally appeared on The Restless Viking website on April 1, 2025. Throughout North America in the crisp, early spring people gather around steamy pans ...

Maple producers are busy boiling down sap to make maple syrup, cream, candy and other products. “We make everything maple,” Becca Anderson of Roxbury Mountain Maple said. That includes maple soda and ...

More than 100 sugarhouses, farms and maple producers across Maine are preparing for the 41st Maine Maple Sunday Weekend March 23 and 24. The event falls toward the end of the sap running season and is ...

Temperatures in Erie were colder than usual in February and warmer than usual in the first half of March. Sugar makers have ...

Cody Anderson feeds the evaporator fire. This time of year, Something Wild co-host Dave Anderson is busy in his sugar house. He’s trying to keep the sap boiling just as fast as it flows through the ...

Pancakes, maple treats, and boiling demonstrations await visitors across the state. See sugarhouses near you. Just a half-mile over the Massachusetts line, Jeff and Paula Babel are busy boiling down ...

When Brian Hughes began collecting maple syrup last year, in early March, he had to plow trails through snow that was thigh high. This year, when he started on the last day of January, he was driving ...

The sweet, slightly smoky scent of boiling maple sap fills sugar shacks this time of year. Gallons of sap bubble and pop as they’re refined into a deep amber syrup with a rich, earthy sweetness.