Perhaps one of the most common myths about trees, Rachael West said, is that they go dormant during the winter months, falling into hibernation until spring rolls around. But West, founder of Eating ...

FRANKLIN – About a dozen fifth-grade students crowded around Michael DeMain and a 175-year-old maple tree in the forest preserve surrounding the Wehr Nature Center in Franklin, eager to collect sap on ...

SO WHAT WE WOULD NEED TO DO IS ACTUALLY GET IT ALL THE WAY DOWN TO HERE. SO THAT SO THAT THE SPILE WILL FIT IN. ALL RIGHT. SO IS IT. ALL RIGHT. LET’S SEE. ALL RIGHT. I’D RATHER HIT. YEAH. USING AN ...

Marylanders have an opportunity to see how sap was tapped from trees over time to make maple syrup. Brittany Roger, the manager of school programs at the Irvine Nature Center in Owings Mills, gave 11 ...

Maple Tree sap tapping has been difficult this year due to the record amount of snow and late spring start. Maple syrup farmers in the northland are waiting anxiously for the weather to warm up enough ...

U.S. In the south, pine trees were extremely valuable sources of pitch products: turpentine, rosin, and more. That practice has dwindled, but tapping sugar maples is still big business in northern ...

Tree sap circulates within a tree’s roots, trunk and branches to carry both nutrients and water throughout the plant, much like the circulatory system in people and animals, explains arborist Jeff ...