Lisa Gauker held up a bottle of store-bought pancake syrup. “Is this really maple syrup?” the recreation and special events supervisor for the Berks County Department of Parks and Recreation asked.

Mark and Susan Lockwood have made a hobby of tapping maple trees on their Seekonk property each year for the past 24 years. In a homemade evaporator, gallons of sap are boiled all day long at the end ...

February and March were the high holy months of maple season. As soon as the weather warmed and the sap started running, the trees were tapped, giant vats came to a rolling boil, and families flocked ...

Winter Camping allows for unique experiences, such as making maple syrup candy on the snow. Here's how I make Maple Taffy ...

MAPLE SYRUP is very much a year-round essential in my kitchen. But there’s always a poetry in the thought that the sap boiled down to produce the syrup we love so much is tapped from maple trees in ...

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 ...