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 ...

“Nature has its own way of providing us with sweeteners.” That’s according to Five Rivers MetroParks, which has been tapping its maple trees for sap at Carriage Hill MetroPark, located at 7850 E.

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 ...

Candace Johnson has often eaten the store-bought blend of chemicals and artificial flavors that sells as maple syrup, but she’d never tasted the real thing. So on Saturday, the 17-year-old and her ...

Sunday felt like a true changing of the seasons with temperatures ranging in the 50s. The sun and heat brought a big spring melt for most of the metro, which was perfect conditions for one of ...