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.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. With the maple sugaring season in full swing, now's the time for Michigan residents to get a look at how maple sap is boiled and ...

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 ...