But if you have a taste for maple syrup, you may think of collecting sap from a sugar maple tree. Sugar maple trees produce sap during the summer, which gets stored through the winter in their roots.

It’s peak maple sugar season and there’s no place better to get into the thick of it than New England. Maple trees are tapped across the region, from Rhode Island to the northern points of Maine.

The sight of a steady drip of sap brought elation to Paula Babel as she lifted a metal bucket hanging off a spile in a sugar maple tree that she calls the “queen of trees.” She poured the ...

It all starts with finding the right maple trees. While all maple tree species produce sap, sugar maples have the absolute best quality sap with the highest sugar content and is the one syrup make ...

But if you have a taste for maple syrup, you may think of collecting sap from a sugar maple tree. Sugar maple trees produce sap during the summer, which gets stored through the winter in their roots.

March is maple syrup season in Wisconsin. The sugar maple tree and the history of maple sugaring is an important part of Wisconsin’s heritage. Genuine maple syrup follows a process of tapping ...