GRAND RAPIDS, Mich — It’s as much a Michigan tradition as playing euchre or using your hand as a map. We make maple syrup here, and this time of the year is typically the sweet spot for making the ...

It is one of the sweetest times of the year. Why? It is maple sugaring month. Although we think of maple as a fall flavor, this is the season when the hard work takes place at sugarhouses. The sap ...

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 ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Maple sugar is produced by boiling ...

JACKSON COUNTY, MI – The Hanover-Horton Area Historic Society celebrated 10 years of offering tours of its Sugar Shack to students from nearby Hanover-Horton Elementary School on Monday. Three groups ...

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 ...

Maple sugar is produced by boiling sap to evaporate the water until past the point of syrup production. It then can be placed into wooden or metal molds to harden into cakes to be used later. Early ...