Traditionally sap was collected in buckets hung on trees ... from 40 to 60 gallons of sap to produce one gallon of syrup. Maple syrup lovers who can’t make the weekend celebrations can still ...

Maple syrup is one of those foods that conjures up particular imagery – the trees, the color red, the forests, the sap dripping into metal buckets. And there is the conviviality of the sugar house ...

Maple syrup starts with a tree — and the crowd-pleasing flavor it produces, which conjures images of home and New England, buckets hanging from tree trunks and neighbors and family members ...

Maple sugaring — or syrup — season is approaching, and soon enough you'll notice buckets clinging to maple trees as hobbyists and commercial operators begin collecting the sweet sap to make ...

A leaf-shaped bottle of maple syrup beside a dish of maple syrup and a honeycomb wand - Pixel-Shot/Shutterstock ...

Fresh maple syrup comes out of the evaporator at 218 ... the event also gives visitors a chance to tap a tree and collect sap from a bucket. If you miss the party, the sugarhouse remains open ...

By the time he was 10 years old, Wightman was trudging through the woods, collecting hundreds of sap-filled buckets by hand. Most of us, when we think about maple syrup, picture rosy-cheeked New ...

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 ...