Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A row of sugar maples in full color at Grange Insurance Audubon Center. If you want to add a large shade tree to your landscape, a ...

LAPEER COUNTY, MI – This giant sugar maple tree stands in the middle of farming fields. It could be a new Michigan champion. Once struck by lightning, the tree continues to thrive, providing shade and ...

The sugar maple (acer saccharum), the “giving tree,” stands out for the sweetness of its sap, which has a higher sugar content than the other maples. Native Americans were the first to process the ...

Northern Michigan’s sugar maples stood tall and strong, sap flowing from taps into lines and collection buckets to be boiled down into the state’s sweetest crop. The maple syrup season was in full ...

Each week, the Intro to Trees of Indiana web series will offer a sneak peek at one species from the book, paired with an ID That Tree video from Purdue Extension forester Lenny Farlee to help ...

March has arrived, and with it comes the maple-producing season! This annual event is a sign of spring in many places and unseasonably warm temperatures (at least in the Northeast and Upper Midwest) ...

Question: During the recent warm spell, I saw someone tapping maple trees for syrup. Isn’t it too early? Answer: Tapping maple sap is ready when nature says so, and for some experienced “sugarbushers, ...

Eight years ago, Vince Portelli tapped a sugar maple tree on his brother-in-law’s property, brought the sap back to his Bloomingdale home, watched a YouTube video on how to make syrup, boiled the sap ...