Twenty miles southwest of Cornell’s Ithaca campus grows a forest of sweet trees. The tubing at their trunks carry sugary sap awaiting to be transformed into a crowd-pleasing breakfast staple: maple ...

Sugar maple trees don't grow just anywhere. Luckily for pancake and waffle lovers, Pennsylvania and Erie County are within the native range for this species that produces the sap used to make maple ...

From late November to early March, Ella Smoot can usually be found in one of two places: the forest or the sugar shack. Like all maple syrup producers, her winter is a rush of running sap—cold ...

Few breakfasts are more satisfying than a stack of fluffy pancakes or waffles generously smothered with butter and real-deal maple syrup (the stuff that comes from trees). However, like many of life's ...

See how maple syrup goes from tree to table and get involved with the process with these maple syrup events in Minnesota. The timing on the calendar and the temperatures point to one of Minnesota’s ...

This story was originally published in March 2020. Tapping maple trees in the first step in the process of making maple syrup. Tapping has to happen at that just-right Goldilocks time between winter ...