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

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

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 ...

Sugaring is well underway with trees tapped and sap boiling.

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 nation had a sweet maple season this year, producing more than 5 million gallons of maple syrup, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Vermont - the country's top maple producer - ...

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

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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 ...

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

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 Vermonters originally made maple sugar, rather than syrup, because it kept ...