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.

FRANKLIN – About a dozen fifth-grade students crowded around Michael DeMain and a 175-year-old maple tree in the forest preserve surrounding the Wehr Nature Center in Franklin, eager to collect sap on ...

Join us for this Saturday Nature Kids program to find out how sweet it can be! This one is all about our native Sugar Maple tree - how to find them, where the sugar comes from, and how to turn the sap ...

For Crandon elementary students, science lessons aren’t coming from a textbook, they’re coming straight from maple trees.

The St. John's Maple Festival offers hands-on activities like sap collection and syrup cooking this Saturday.

Attendees were also invited to sample sap straight from the tree and enjoy treats like maple candies, syrup-covered pancakes, ...