After two long days of boiling for more than 10 hours, we enjoy a day off with a pancake breakfast topped with our homemade maple syrup! #MapleSyrup #PancakeBreakfast ...

Reverse osmosis: cutting down boiling time and energy use Boiling sap to remove water is one of the most energy-intensive parts of maple syrup production. However, reverse osmosis machines help ...

From late November to early March, Ella Smoot can usually be found in one of two places: the forest or the sugar shack. Like all maple syrup producers, her winter is a rush of running sap—cold ...

LaMuth Middle School science teacher Joyell Weimer, left, teaches the process of tapping for maple syrup. The school’s seventh grade students are learning how to make maple syrup this year using ...

The 200 trees on the property are still tapped by hand, filling 470 pails.In the video above, we see Karl Zander keep the fires stoked up to boil sap down to syrup.

Lisa Gauker, Recreation and Special Events supervisor, explains how to boil down sap into syrup during a maple sugaring demonstration by the Berks County Parks and Recreation Department on ...

Or if you don’t want to go to the work of boiling to make syrup, there’s an option for you, too. “You can just do what my son does [and] just drink the sap, too,” Roberge said.

Sap boiled for longer makes for thicker syrup. Now, Mark, 64, and Susan, 62, are hoping to step back from the process as Matt picks up the tradition with the maple trees at his own property in Norton.