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.

Lisa Gauker held up a bottle of store-bought pancake syrup. “Is this really maple syrup?” the recreation and special events supervisor for the Berks County Department of Parks and Recreation asked.

LaMuth Middle School students are getting a taste of how they can apply science lessons in their own backyards. Seventh-graders at the Riverside district school have been working with staff members ...

Ever wanted to tap a tree and make your own maple syrup? We’ve got four ways to learn or pitch in. Here in mid-February, maple sap may start to run in little spurts when temperatures rise above ...

Kids gathered around Gabe Nichols, a teacher at the Boone County Nature School, as he drilled into a sugar maple tree. After a spout and hose were attached, sap rushed into a bucket to be later turned ...