The calendar indicates that it’s spring, and despite occasional freezing temperatures and lingering patches of snow, the return of extended daylight confirms this change of season. Last year, a chance ...

Sunday felt like a true changing of the seasons with temperatures ranging in the 50s. The sun and heat brought a big spring melt for most of the metro, which was perfect conditions for one of ...

All Wisconsin crops are impacted by the weather, and that includes maple syrup. Maple sap collection involves drilling into mature trees, with modern methods like vacuum systems and pipeline networks ...

EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (WEAU) - The syrup season is back here in Western Wisconsin with producers tapping trees and collecting sap. But with some mile winters the last few years, sap harvesters have to be ...

MIDLAND, Mich. — The first weekend of spring brought a sweet tradition back to the Chippewa Nature Center as visitors gathered for Maple Syrup Day. Families and community members spent the day ...

Twenty miles southwest of Cornell’s Ithaca campus grows a forest of sweet trees. The tubing at their trunks carry sugary sap awaiting to be transformed into a crowd-pleasing breakfast staple: maple ...

The race to bottle a year’s supply of maple syrup begins the moment sap starts flowing in late winter. Producers tap thousands of trees and run evaporators day and night, working against a narrow ...

You can have your Daylight Saving Time or your dwindling snow banks or your red-winged blackbirds or your sprouting daffodils. Vermonters know the real first sign of approaching spring is when they ...