However, back in those days, producing maple syrup was a labor-intensive process involving tapping trees, collecting sap in buckets, and boiling it down over an open fire. Today, technology has ...

Ross Wagner grew up in the family business, hauling buckets and helping out with the syrup cooking. Now he uses an app on his phone to monitor the flow of sap from trees for his cooking operation ...

buckets and lids. Maple sugaring can be a hobby or a business. In Michigan there are an "estimated 500 commercial maple syrup producers and approximately 2,000 additional hobby or home-use ...

He said he has fond memories of making maple syrup in a turkey cooker with his son when he was young. Next to the sugar house, Ryan has hung old-fashioned buckets beneath the taps of a few maple ...