Harvesting maple sap required trudging through the woods, drilling a tap into and hanging a bucket onto hundreds if not ...

Chris Naftel took this photo at his home in Bear Valley Springs of a red-breasted sapsucker (Sphyrapicus ruber) that was ...

But at The Maple Guild in Island Pond, Vermont, you won't see guys in flannels carrying buckets of sap ... miles of plastic tubing carry the sap from the trees to pump stations.

Selling bikes is interesting, but being in the woods in spring, gathering maple sap, is addictive, a distinction Mark and ...

Branon Family Maple Orchards Co-Owner Cecile Branon said that freezing temperatures followed by recent warm spells caused the ...

Bearded, burly Tim Burton assembled a small crowd around a tall, moss-spackled hard maple tree just outside ... and hooked a bucket onto it. He collects sap in this relatively low-tech ...

Sugar-makers rely on a “freeze and thaw cycle” to tap the maple trees. Sap flows when temperatures drop below freezing at night and rise above freezing during the day, Roseum explained.

By the time he was 10 years old, Wightman was trudging through the woods, collecting hundreds of sap-filled buckets by hand. Most of us, when we think about maple syrup, picture rosy-cheeked New ...