Japanese maples, Acer palmatum, are popular, highly ornamental trees that add value and lustrous color to your landscape. Considered low maintenance, they grow well in USDA hardiness zones 5 through 7 ...

Trees can be identified in winter by observing their needles, bark, branching patterns, and buds. Distinctive bark, such as ...

Japanese maple trees (Acer palmatum) add interest to your landscape all year long. Their delicate palmate leaves form a lace-like canopy in vibrant shades of green, bronze, red, orange, and purple ...

After the harvesting process comes the real work of maple sugaring, which is concentrating the sap into delicious maple syrup. Commercial producers use reverse osmosis, and Kinnan says he is ...

The nights are still cold but days are (mostly) becoming milder. That means it’s time to tap into those maple trees to begin the process of converting the sticky sap into delicious maple syrup or ...

Every winter, John Cermak and his family drill holes into 2,200 maple trees on their 45-acre farm. They hammer steel spouts into those holes, and then they wait. “The ideal weather for us is when it ...

Vermonters’ near-cultlike reverence of maple syrup is part of who we are — not only in its consumption but its preparation ...

Indigenous peoples taught European colonizers how to tap maple trees to make maple syrup. For this Menominee family, it's a cultural touchpoint.

Maple syrup has long been the lifeblood of Virginia’s Highland County. This year, a brutal ice storm and recent warmth ...