Gov. Phil Scott visited a Northeast Kingdom sugarhouse on Wednesday to highlight the beginning of Vermont's maple sugaring ...

Governor Scott also signed a proclamation declaring the month of March as ‘Maple Month’ in Vermont, saying “WHEREAS, maple ...

Vermont Governor Phil Scott and Secretary of Agriculture Anson Tebbetts joined April Lemay and her family at April’s Maple in Canaan at the northeastern corner of the state to recognize the beginning ...

VERMONT GOVERNOR PHIL SCOTT AND HIS CABINET SPENT THE DAY IN ESSEX COUNTY. HIGHLIGHTING THE STATE'S SWEETEST SEASON. N-B-C ...

But warmer winters and midseason thaws are disrupting that balance. Producers are being forced to adapt to protect both their trees and their livelihoods. “The recent winters have warmed up way too ...

The Northeast produces the vast majority of U.S. maple syrup because of cold, freezing nights followed by warm, ...

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The race to bottle a year’s supply of maple syrup begins the moment sap starts flowing in late winter. Producers tap ...

THE production of maple sugar and syrup is a major industry of Vermont. According to official estimates, in a normal sugar year it amounts to nearly 20 per cent of the total agricultural products of ...

An etching from an 1879 edition of Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper shows men collecting sap outside Rutland, Vermont. Vermonters originally made maple sugar, rather than syrup, because it kept ...

A Vermont farmer faces fines up to $10,000 per day for placing hay bales around maple trees he estimated to be around 250 years old. Doug Lilley of Calais received a letter from the town threatening ...

If not for maple syrup, March in Vermont would be all about mud season. Thank goodness that the grey days and muddy roads of early spring go hand-in-hand with one of Mother Nature’s most wonderful ...