When sugar shacks get busy boiling maple sap into liquid gold, we know spring is around the corner. The annual ritual has taken place for thousands of years, beginning with the Indigenous peoples who ...

Now that the days are warming and the nights are still cool, sap is flowing and signs of spring are here in Ontario. A couple of years ago we started making maple syrup on 25 acres in the heart of ...

Spring arrived early this year, leading to an unexpected start to maple syrup season. Typically occurring at the end of March or beginning of April, the warm weather at the end of February enabled sap ...

A new test developed by researchers at Carleton University to detect low-quality sap is being hailed as a solution to prevent thousands of litres of maple syrup from going down the drain every spring.

Each spring, as the freeze-thaw cycle takes hold of parts of the country, the sap in red and sugar maple trees starts to flow, marking the start of the sugar bush season Maple trees are tapped with ...