Before maple syrup found its way onto stacks of Southern hot cakes, there was cane syrup. Made from pressed sugarcane juice cooked down in iron kettles, cane syrup was the South's table staple. Cane ...

New Jersey may soon establish a viable maple syrup industry through a new project. Stockton University in southern New Jersey is leading efforts to produce syrup using red maples, which are prevalent ...

MAPLES YOU LIKELY DON'T KNOW: Two other species of maples that deserve more planting in our area are the Southern sugar maple, or Florida maple (Acer floridanum), and the trident maple (Acer ...

A university in New Jersey is spending a $1 million grant from the US Department of Agriculture on testing the feasibility of a maple syrup industry in the Garden State. Stockton University is in its ...

Maple sugar season is underway in northern Ohio and the future of the sugar maple (acer saccharum) may be in question. Forest or sugar bush maple trees are the source of maple sugar sap used to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This group of young workers (and canine companion) are gathering sap collected from hanging metal pails for transport to the ...

Many people travel to New England in October to see the wonderful fall color in the deciduous forests. A large proportion of the color is provided by maples, including the sugar maple, red maple and ...