Lisa Gauker held up a bottle of store-bought pancake syrup. “Is this really maple syrup?” the recreation and special events supervisor for the Berks County Department of Parks and Recreation asked.

From late November to early March, Ella Smoot can usually be found in one of two places: the forest or the sugar shack. Like all maple syrup producers, her winter is a rush of running sap—cold ...

Ever wanted to tap a tree and make your own maple syrup? We’ve got four ways to learn or pitch in. Here in mid-February, maple sap may start to run in little spurts when temperatures rise above ...

LaMuth Middle School students are getting a taste of how they can apply science lessons in their own backyards. Seventh-graders at the Riverside district school have been working with staff members ...

GORHAM, NY — Those darn squirrels seem to get into everything, even the plastic tubing that leads from a small, wooded area on the Marcus Whitman school campus to a new red-painted sugarhouse. Earlier ...