Maple Syrup

Mark Isselhardt, a maple specialist at UVM Extension, discusses the 2023 sugaring season as well as new federal legislation known as the MAPLE SYRUP Act.

Vermont produced almost a quarter less maple syrup than last year, following low temperatures and a major winter storm, and high snowpack.

Spring in Vermont means sugaring. While most operations are in rural parts of the state, a group of urban tree-tappers in Burlington are hoping to share that experience with city residents.

Vermont maple producers collected about 2.5 million gallons of syrup in 2022, according to new data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. That’s an 800,000 gallon increase over 2021.

The northernmost reaches of Somerset County in Maine could become one of the last strongholds of syrup production in New England.

Forrest Foster runs a small organic dairy in Hardwick. He works from about 5 a.m. to 8 or 9 p.m. every day of the week, and this time of year, in addition to all his barn chores, he sugars. Independent producer Erica Heilman stopped in last weekend to see how he was coming along.

Vermont's maple sugaring season has begun, and host Mikaela Lefrak talks with experts and professional sugarers about what is new this year.

Small-scale maple syrup productions ticked up during the pandemic, and plenty of online and in-person resources exist for those who want to start tapping trees next spring.

Call us rivals, or frenemies...But where does this half-serious tension come from? Ian Harding of Los Angeles asked Brave Little State to break it down.

All over Vermont small, family-owned sugarhouses lie tucked into hillsides. Some haven’t been used in decades and at others, families are still producing…