As spring rolls in, you may want to start planning the kinds of trees you'll want to plant in your yard. There are 11 ...

In early spring, a reddish haze appears in the woodlands. With most deciduous trees still dormant, the red maples are living ...

Maple syrup, naturally sweet with its lush notes of vanilla and caramel, is one of the first signs of spring. Now, maple’s lesser-known forest cousin birch is having ...

The Upper Hudson Maple Producers will host their 2025 Maple Weekends Saturday and Sunday as well as March 29-30.

Now the owners got other priorities as they run the small business: production, a shortage of skilled workers, and rising costs of raw materials.

A large group of adults and kids learned how to tap sap at Carpenter Nature Center in the St. Croix Valley near Hastings on ...

The sight of a steady drip of sap brought elation to Paula Babel as she lifted a metal bucket hanging off a spile in a sugar maple tree that she calls the “queen of trees.” She poured the ...

But in the end, the Toronto Maple Leafs made none of those bold moves, instead getting two very steady and safe additions in center Scott Laughton and defenseman Brandon Carlo at the trade deadline.

As the warm days (around 5 C) alternate with cold nights, the sugar maple’s unique cell structure works like a pump. A negative pressure is formed in a tree’s cells at night, sucking the sap up to ...

Real maple syrup has not only sweetness and natural flavor but it also has all of the minerals and other nutrient compounds a tree needs to grow and thrive. Those minerals and nutrients are the ...