Native Americans of northeastern North America have been harvesting maple sap and boiling it into syrup and sugar for many centuries. Various tribes have legends of how this sweet bounty of the ...

Submitted photo / John Slanina Rocky Ridge Neighborhood Association member Bill D’Avignon during the boiling sap portion of the maple syrup process at the Rocky Ridge Sugar House in Mill Creek Park.

Sign up for the Gazette's morning newsletter and get essential news each day. Plenty of young kids tap a few maple trees, inspired by the sweet promise of maple syrup ...

Mark and Susan Lockwood have made a hobby of tapping maple trees on their Seekonk property each year for the past 24 years. In a homemade evaporator, gallons of sap are boiled all day long at the end ...

Bill and Elaine Markham have been making maple syrup at the Mill Brook Sugarhouse on New Lenox Road for 46 years. They use reverse osmosis to take out 75 percent of the water and an oil boiler to ...