Their seasonal business is weather dependent — warmer weather leads to more maple sap flowing out and an increase in sales of the equipment vital to its collection and transformation into syrup.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. ASHTABULA — Some Lakeside High School students have been exploring new skills by learning to make maple syrup. LHS teacher ...

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 ...

In a few weeks Dave Kemp will be making his annual pilgrimage to the Vermont Maple Festival in St. Albans, where he will tour the open houses of sugaring equipment manufacturers clustered nearby.

HILBERT — Business was brisk on an average March weekday at Smoky Lake Maple Products. Angela and Jim Schumacher, co-owners of the syrup-focused tool manufacturer, serve several maple syrup producers, ...

Bruce Bascom is president of Bascom Maple Farms, in Acworth, N.H., where the business aggregates and produces its own maple syrup and sugar, and sells sugaring equipment, on Thursday, March 20, 2025.