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 ...

Do you have any maple trees in your yard? How about a free weekend in February or March and maybe a backyard grill? Oh, and a lot of patience. If you do, you might be able to make some homemade maple ...

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Toss salad, glaze pork chops, marinate chicken, enrich cocktails, and macerate strawberries with maple syrup this season. Jodie Kautzmann is an editor, baker, and confectioner with more than 15 years ...

Their seasonal business is weather dependent — warmer weather leads to more maple sap flowing out and an increase in sales of the equipment vital to its collection and transformation into syrup.

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 ...

Join Kossuth County Conservation this weekend to celebrate 70 years of making maple syrup at the Cozy Grove Sugar Shack just south of Algona. The maple syrup operation started in the late 1940’s by ...