Syrup storage: Light, dark or very dark — whichever maple syrup you use, once a container has been opened, store it in a covered container in the refrigerator and it will last for months.

RELATED: As trees warm and wake up, sap rises inside. That's why March is often maple syrup season. But this year, it could be a February activity. "If you see a long-range forecast that's warm, I ...

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.

Nature has much to share with us on the first day of spring, like the clean sweet caramel taste of pure maple syrup. At River Trail Nature Center in Northbrook on Sunday, families were introduced ...

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 ...

Maple syrup is famously made in spring, when below-freezing nights followed by warm days cause the sap stored in a sugar maple’s trunk to flow up and out of the tree and into buckets or plastic ...

In Canada, where a single red maple leaf adorns its flag, syrup production soared in 2017, then a harsh winter and early spring sent it to a three-year low in 2018.

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 ...

You won't get sticker shock the next time you buy real maple syrup once you understand how difficult it is to produce this ...

Different maple trees and different conditions produce sap with different amounts of sugar. High sugar content at the start of the process of boiling it down to syrup produces lighter, more ...

Bruce Hopper has been making maple syrup for 10 years. He taps his neighbors' maple sugar trees along Central Street in Auburn and has close to 200 taps on other sugar maples in other neighborhoods.