CHARDON, Ohio -- Northeast Ohio is a maple syrup-producing region, with Chardon as its capital. Gathering maple sap to reduce into the sweet elixir usually starts in mid-February, but last week’s warm ...

Maple syrup has long been the perfect complement to waffles and pancakes, but the good stuff doesn’t come from Mrs. Butterworth. The New England Maple Museum traces maple syrup’s history back to an ...

Spring comes in fits and starts in northern Minnesota. The white of winter is slowly replaced by shriveled, brown snow banks. It rains, then snows. The gulls return, and it snows again. The ...

There’s no sweeter way of getting back to nature than by tapping a maple tree. In Pennsylvania, this is the busiest time of year for the dozens of maple farms that together produced 142,000 gallons of ...

The typical timeframe for gathering sap from tapped maple trees, at least in my neck of the woods, is March 1 to April 1. This year, however, folks I know in the maple syrup world were tapping their ...

Ginger tea's never as sweet as when it's made by dipping the cup into the long metal pan of boiling sap, breathing in the steam, at a friend's annual spring sap boil. Maybe one day I'll tape the ...