SOMERVILLE — On a cold, gray Saturday in March, people of all ages made their way to the Somerville Community Growing Center to attend the 24th annual Maple Boil Down. Over the course of the day, 525 ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Aaron Wightman was almost born in a sugarhouse. It was early April, and his parents were boiling maple ...

Boiling maple sap into syrup is a time honored tradition in the Northeast, to the olfactory delight of anyone who has spent time in a steamy sugar house while inhaling the sweet maple scent of the ...

The spell of warm weather that started in late December got the maple sap running, and some of the state’s largest syrup producers are boiling it already. While sugar making is more commonly ...

Maple syrup season is just getting underway, and clouds of steam rise from the evaporators Derik and Sue Zimmel have set up in the driveway of their Leech Lake cabin to boil away the excess liquid on ...

Native Americans of northeastern North America have been harvesting maple sap and boiling it into syrup and sugar for many centuries. Various tribes have legends of how this sweet bounty of the ...