After the harvesting process comes the real work of maple sugaring, which is concentrating the sap into delicious maple syrup. Commercial producers use reverse osmosis, and Kinnan says he is ...

A sure sign of spring is seeing sap buckets hanging from a maple tree. Making maple syrup is one of the oldest food-processing traditions in upper North America. Depending on ...

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 ...