Much like maple trees, birch trees can be tapped for a steady source of delicious and edible liquid sap, also called birch water. Learning bushcraft skills serves as a clear reminder that we are ...

While she typically spends her time tapping on a computer tablet, the prospect of tapping a birch tree gets Leilani Klingbeil outdoors. OneTree Alaska logos are placed on small jars of freshly made ...

The calendar indicates that it’s spring, and despite occasional freezing temperatures and lingering patches of snow, the return of extended daylight confirms this change of season. Last year, a chance ...

GOLDEN VALLEY, Minn — When it comes to maple trees, sugar maples are the best because they have the highest sugar content, but you can tap any maple for syrup. Tapping season is when daytime highs are ...

I think they re expecting it to taste like maple syrup. In Maine, Kevin Grant has been tapping birch trees on his property in Ripley for six or seven years, and he and his wife enjoy the results in ...

The North Country's maple syrup season ended last week for most producers, with record production and high-quality syrup. Adam Wild, director of the Uihlein Maple Research Forest, near Lake Placid, ...

Boiling maple sap down to maple syrup isn't going away anytime soon, but it's getting some new competition from the humble birch. The tapping of... When many people think of Latvian food, they ...

Birch sap will soon be running as the weather warms up in Mat-Su. Gerald Keene is getting his sap lines in shape north of Wasilla at his 4 Trees Birch Syrup property. Keene tapped 635 birch trees last ...

STARKSBORO -- High on a mountain in the narrow valley that's home to Heffernan Family Sugarworks, clear birch sap is dripping from a tap in a tree, bending slightly in the wind blowing through a grove ...

STARKSBORO, Vt. (AP) - High on a mountain in the narrow valley that’s home to Heffernan Family Sugarworks, clear birch sap is dripping from a tap in a tree, bending slightly in the wind blowing ...