SUTTON — Vermont Gov. Phil Scott tapped a maple tree at Pure Gold Sugaring in Sutton on March 3 to recognize the beginning of this year’s maple season. With the weather still chilly but the sun ...

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 homesteading pros at Gold Shaw Farm tap maple trees for syrup using the Vermont method.

If not for maple syrup, March in Vermont would be all about mud season. Thank goodness that the grey days and muddy roads of early spring go hand-in-hand with one of Mother Nature’s most wonderful ...

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 ...

FRANKLIN – About a dozen fifth-grade students crowded around Michael DeMain and a 175-year-old maple tree in the forest preserve surrounding the Wehr Nature Center in Franklin, eager to collect sap on ...