Here, conditions converge to produce sap for maple syrup. We have the requisite long, cold winters and a spring cycle of freezing nights followed by warm days.

Maple trees aren't the only ones that produce edible sap, and you can use these tips to turn create a wide variety of tree syrups during the winter.

Join Julie for the third installment in her sugarmaking series. In this one, she’ll show you how to boil maple sap into syrup and how you can store it.

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Wild late winter temperature swings make one type of Northeast Ohio gardener happy: maple sugarmakers, who harvest sap from maple trees for a few weeks in February and March and ...

Fifty trees should yield about 500 gallons of sap, or 10-12 gallons of syrup. This is going to be amazing! 3. Also in November, take delivery of a cord of kiln-dried hardwood.

When early spring rolls around, it's prime time for making maple syrup. So, how do farmers harvest sap and take it from the tree to the bottle?

Step 3: Tap trees and insert spiles Tapping sugar maple trees to collect sap for making maple syrup.

"If your family is ready to hit the trails, we are providing free, self-guided Maple Syrup Hikes from March 20-31. Through informational signs, you'll learn the science behind how trees make sap ...

Of course, it’s easy enough to buy maple syrup at a store, or venture out in the spring to one of the dozens of Central New York commercial syrup producers and buy some freshly made.

Sap can be collected from birch or box elder trees, also in the maple family, but it takes more sap to make the syrup, advised Friends of Maplewood volunteers.

When early spring rolls around, it's prime time for making maple syrup. So, how do farmers harvest sap and take it from the tree to the bottle?