Students in the building trades class at Broome-Tioga BOCES are producing homemade maple syrup — about 50 bottles per year — using a reverse osmosis system they built themselves.

Ever wanted to make your own maple syrup? With a few tools of the trade and a maple tree in the backyard, you’re just a few easy steps away from coating your waffles and cakes in homemade maple syrup.

It might have been Dave Amerikaner’s first time tapping a sugar maple tree, but even as an amateur, he could tell the fast-flowing stream was a lot of sap. Sap was falling from branches, running down ...

Even before leaves emerge, Heidi and Jason Wolf taste the sweetness of spring as they tap maple trees and begin making syrup. The family welcomes visitors to experience the harvest at ...

Ah, maple syrup. Whether in a breakfast bowl or dressing, or poured over crepes, it is simply irresistible. It’s harvested at ...

Maple syrup is famously made in spring, when below-freezing nights followed by warm days cause the sap stored in a sugar maple’s trunk to flow up and out of the tree and into buckets or plastic tubing ...

A record-breaking event took place in West Springfield, and it involved maple syrup and pancakes.

Maple Weekend returns with tours, pancake breakfasts and behind-the-scenes looks at syrup production across western New York.