Growing fire-enabling plant material in your yard can increase the fire risk to your home. Switch them out with these ...

Dozens of trees on a ridge above I-90 were cut or stripped. King County is now suing a trio of property owners.

More than two years after Eversource cut town 20 ancient sugar maples on Brickhouse Road without the town’s knowledge, in ...

Japanese Maple is the perfect tree to bring a little unexpected and lovely transformation to your spring garden designs.

Droughts impact the trees before tapping season, when winter is about to begin. Back in the 1990s, a local farmer told Tom that you have to watch how much rain comes in August.

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 ...

Winter winds eventually helped the limb fall, sometimes into a window. But the tree remained strong. The boy next door grew up and moved away. I regret that I once did the tree unnecessary harm.

See how maple syrup goes from tree to table and get involved with the process with these maple syrup events in Minnesota. NOTE: This list will be updated for 2025 during the first week of March ...

Maple syrup producers in Waterloo region are preparing to start their season with a tree tapping ceremony on Friday. While climate change caused early starts to maple seasons in the last three ...

About 40 gallons of sap boil down to 1 gallon of pure maple syrup. Matt Lockwood, Susan and Mark's son, has begun tapping trees and keeping the tradition alive at his own property in Norton, MA.

A maple tree typically has to be 40 years old in order to be large enough to be used in sugar making. Vince Portelli says even then, a 40-year-old tree with a 10-inch diameter can only handle one tap.

Michigan ranked 5th in maple syrup production in 2024, with 650,000 trees tapped and 200,000 gallons of sap collected, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said. What is artificial maple syrup made ...