I love winter and have been hoping for a lot more snow, which we got last week, but only after an unseasonably (record-smashing) warm spell. Much as I love winter and want to stay in the moment, that ...

A sweet tradition continues this spring when the Forest Preserve District of Kane County and the McHenry County Conservation District hold their annual maple sugaring events. Maple Sugaring Days, Kane ...

Vivan Varin taps a maple tree for sap to make maple syrup at Forest History Center in Grand Rapids, Minn. NINA MOINI: Many Minnesotans are currently experiencing the sweet spot of a generations-old ...

DEERBROOK, Wis. (AP) — Jeremy Solin doesn’t need a jacket right now on his family farm in northern Wisconsin. There’s no snow blanketing the dead leaves in the grove of sugar maples. There, pails ...

Maple syrup season is just getting underway, and clouds of steam rise from the evaporators Derik and Sue Zimmel have set up in the driveway of their Leech Lake cabin to boil away the excess liquid on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For some, spring isn't marked by a calendar date. It begins with maple syrup. With freezing nights and warmer days, maple sap ...

Nature has much to share with us on the first day of spring, like the clean sweet caramel taste of pure maple syrup. At River Trail Nature Center in Northbrook on Sunday, families were introduced to ...

Anthracnose, a fungal disease affecting maple trees, is prevalent in Greater Columbus due to the cool, wet spring. The disease causes brown leaf spots, curling leaves and premature leaf drop, but ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. You can have your Daylight Saving Time or your dwindling snow banks or your red-winged blackbirds or your sprouting daffodils.

DEERBROOK, Wis. — Jeremy Solin doesn’t need a jacket right now on his family farm in northern Wisconsin. There’s no snow blanketing the dead leaves in the grove of sugar maples. There, pails already ...