Students in the building trades class at Broome-Tioga BOCES are producing homemade maple syrup — about 50 bottles per year — using a reverse osmosis system they built themselves.

Question: During the recent warm spell, I saw someone tapping maple trees for syrup. Isn’t it too early? Answer: Tapping maple sap is ready when nature says so, and for some experienced “sugarbushers, ...

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 ...

Maple sap production, essential for syrup, varies based on factors like soil, sunlight, and temperature. Sustained cold weather, like the winter of 2024-25, benefits maple trees and their sap ...

Eight years ago, Vince Portelli tapped a sugar maple tree on his brother-in-law’s property, brought the sap back to his Bloomingdale home, watched a YouTube video on how to make syrup, boiled the sap ...