Sugar shacks are typically small cabins wherein sap is collected from nearby maple trees and boiled into syrup. This ...

Who taught us how to make maple syrup? Native Americans taught the European settlers ... The sap flows through the evaporator at the same rate that water is boiled out. The lower the sugar content of ...

Seventy miles away, Daryl Dietrich is trying to get her Bigleaf maple syrup business off the ground in Quilcene on the ...

If not for maple syrup, March in Vermont would be all about mud season. Thank goodness that the grey days and muddy roads of ...

They are standing in front of their evaporator machine. The stainless steel barrel on the left is where the final maple syrup product ends up. Photos by Daryl Simons Jr. LAKEWOOD — This year marked ...

The sap (two percent sugar when it leaves the tree) is fed by pipes from the storage tank to the evaporator. As it boils, the water evaporates and the sap becomes denser and sweeter. It is boiled ...

Others joined Ray Carver inside the evaporator house to learn how sap is boiled into maple syrup. The third station was inside the Swift River Maple store, where children could buy syrup in jugs ...