Learn how to simply filter sugar sand in maple syrup. Once you encounter the niter maple syrup contains, you can easily filter it out to get clear maple syrup. Have you ever found sediment, grit, or ...

Kate Whelley McCabe and Justin McCabe met in a warehouse in Ohio in 2000. They were recent college graduates with hard hats and management jobs, working for a big supply company. Now, two children, ...

Sugarmaking season is just a window of several weeks in Vermont — the time in late winter when nature provides the sunny, warmer days and freezing nights ideal for tapping maples. But the short season ...

How is maple syrup made? Start harvesting maple syrup in your backyard by gathering your maple tree tapping supplies and use these instructions to build a maple sap evaporator from a barrel.

New Hampshire maple producer, Wayne Pike’s old, wood-fired evaporator in his Lyme, New Hampshire sugarhouse, left; and his new evaporator, right. (Jeremy Fowler / Natural Resource Conservation Service ...