Adam and Bethany Hamberg lead lives full of activity. With three children — Marcus, Ivy and Andrew — and a hobby farm with ...

Turning sap into syrup Residents will soon have the chance to learn how to tap their own maple trees and turn sap into syrup through a hands-on workshop hosted by the St. Pierre Museum. The workshop ...

Students in East Greenbush got a sweet lesson in science on Tuesday. Kids at Bell Top Elementary School learned how to make maple syrup – from tapping trees to collecting sap.

Weather conditions haven’t been ideal for backyard maple syrup makers this season, but local sugar shacks are still boiling and selling across the state.

Maple syrup is a sweetener made from the sap of maple trees, primarily sugar maples, by boiling the sap to concentrate the sugar. According to the “Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America,” Native ...