Dave Barnes, a southwestern Manitoba maple syrup producer, says 2023 is proving to be the worst start to a season he's seen in almost 20 years — but he remains hopeful a long spring might still ...

A family in Thunder Bay, Ont., has been tapping a decades-old silver maple tree in their front yard each spring for the last four years. Now it's a trend across the neighbourhood.

Drip, drip, drip — you can hear it throughout much of Ontario these days. It’s the sound of sap dripping out of sugar maple trees and into metal buckets — although, some old school trees ...

Maple butter, also known as maple cream, is a sweet spread made from 100% maple syrup, drawn from trees each spring. The syrup is concentrated and whipped to a creamy texture.

At one litre of syrup per tap, Staples’ trees usually produce 3,500 litres of maple sap during a good season. On average, it takes about 40-45 litres of maple sap to make one litre of maple syrup.

Jonathan Davis, left, tastes the first run of maple syrup with his father, Steven, right, Saturday, Feb. 24, 2024, in Sturgeon Bay, Wis. Steven Davis, who started tapping 220 trees on his family's ...

It’s made by boiling down sap collected from sugar maple trees, often during early spring. Though traditionally simple, maple syrup now comes in a wide range of grades and styles.

WATERLOO REGION — Life in the sugar bush runs as it always has. “It’s a normal spring for producers,” says Kevin Snyder, president of the Waterloo-Wellington chapter of the Ontario Maple ...

Learn how to tap a maple tree and taste pure, local syrup at the Forest Preserve District of Kane County’s Maple Sugaring Days from noon to 3 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, March 2 and 3, at Creek ...

Some of the sugar maple trees have been performing this spring ritual for 100 years or more. Muskoka’s Maple Trail includes more than 30 different locations where maple products are on the menu.