Chicago Tribune

Families enjoy annual ritual of tapping trees during the Maple Syrup Festival at River Trail Nature Center

In Spring we celebrate changes in nature, and when sap starts rising in maple trees _ it’s a first indication that Spring is right around the corner. Area families gathered at River Trail Nature ...
South Bend Tribune

Warm winter means less maple syrup, but with a few twists as festivals return

Winter's freakish warmth made for a somewhat skimpy maple sugar season, but it still produced mysteries. One sugar maple tree at Bendix Woods County Park in New Carlisle gave zero sap to boil into ...
The Herald News

SouthCoast family has been making its own maple syrup for 24 years. Here's how they do it.

Mark and Susan Lockwood have made a hobby of tapping maple trees on their Seekonk property each year for the past 24 years. In a homemade evaporator, gallons of sap are boiled all day long at the end ...
Wicked Local

Late winter ritual: Tapping maple trees to convert sticky sap into sweet syrup

The nights are still cold but days are (mostly) becoming milder. That means it’s time to tap into those maple trees to begin the process of converting the sticky sap into delicious maple syrup or ...
The Daily Northwestern

Brainstorm: Maple Syrup and Climate Change — tapping into the history and science of Northwestern trees

This episode of Brainstorm covers environmental policy and culture Prof. Eli Suzukovich III’s “Maple Syrup and Climate Change” course, which combines lessons about indigenous philosophy, climate ...