maple syrup

With consistently less snow and higher temperatures, sugarmaking season is coming earlier and lasting shorter.

“We’re a small producer, so any help we can get certainly helps," one local sugar house operator said. "We’ve never operated in the green, we’re always in the red."

For some, maple sugaring is a perennial ritual, painstakingly completed as we usher out the bitter wisps of winter, and embrace balmier, brighter days of early spring.

A mild winter season has kickstarted syrup production weeks ahead of schedule.

The problem for southern Maine and New England producers is erratic winter weather and shortening sap season.

Researchers at the University of New Hampshire are studying new ways to make syrup out of the northern forest -- not from maple trees, but from beeches,…

Scientists at the University of New Hampshire are studying ways to tap trees and make syrup with species other than maples, in hopes of developing new…

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