Native Americans of northeastern North America have been harvesting maple sap and boiling it into syrup and sugar for many centuries. Various tribes have legends of how this sweet bounty of the ...

LYKENS TOWNSHIP - On a sunny day in early spring, a cloud hung over the small building between Knauss Road and Ohio 100. That cloud was steam, not smoke, but it was nevertheless a signal: It meant the ...

We're not quite at the cusp of The Singularity yet, but technological progress touches just about everything around us. This fact was driven home recently when the Geeklings and I visited a local ...

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 ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich — It’s as much a Michigan tradition as playing euchre or using your hand as a map. We make maple syrup here, and this time of the year is typically the sweet spot for making the ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Jakob Hooper collects some sap from the boiler pit while Gavin Mitchell ...

We’re not quite at the cusp of The Singularity yet, but technological progress touches just about everything around us. This fact was driven home recently when the Geeklings and I visited a local ...

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You might not have noticed, but drop by drop, the first harvest of 2021 has begun. There's more sunlight. Maple trees and their shallow roots break their dormancy, and the sap will be ready to rise up ...

Vermont's century-old technology for producing maple syrup is helping to transform the sugar cane industry far away in the Central American nation of Honduras. Standard evaporator designs, with ...

It seemed like the 40-degree days would never come, but the phone rang around St. Patrick’s Day with my friend Tom’s calm, steady voice on the other end, “Mark, we have sap running.” The next day I ...

SOMERVILLE — On a cold, gray Saturday in March, people of all ages made their way to the Somerville Community Growing Center to attend the 24th annual Maple Boil Down. Over the course of the day, 525 ...