ROSEVILLE, Minn. — Songs of spring differ by region, but in Amy Perkins' neighborhood, the music of tree sap hitting metal buckets fills the air. "My first year I collected 115 gallons of sap," ...
With the weirdly cold spring changing normal production schedules, maple syrup producers have had a rough season. But they have a new advantage, too. Instead of relying on buckets attached to trees to ...
After the harvesting process comes the real work of maple sugaring, which is concentrating the sap into delicious maple syrup. Commercial producers use reverse osmosis, and Kinnan says he is ...