A form of magic is performed annually in the basement of a former University of Alaska Fairbanks cafeteria. A team at the OneTree lab in the Lola Tilley building collects and transforms thousands of ...

If you've ever been to a wine tasting, you've probably seen people swish sips of it in their mouths to evaluate the flavor. In a University of Alaska Fairbanks test kitchen, that's exactly what food ...

The calendar indicates that it’s spring, and despite occasional freezing temperatures and lingering patches of snow, the return of extended daylight confirms this change of season. Last year, a chance ...

STARKSBORO -- High on a mountain in the narrow valley that's home to Heffernan Family Sugarworks, clear birch sap is dripping from a tap in a tree, bending slightly in the wind blowing through a grove ...

The North Country's maple syrup season ended last week for most producers, with record production and high-quality syrup. Adam Wild, director of the Uihlein Maple Research Forest, near Lake Placid, ...

But just how long it will last and how quickly it will flow depends on the weather. Warm daytime temperatures followed by freezing weather at night have been the perfect scenario to start tapping tree ...

GOLDEN VALLEY, Minn — When it comes to maple trees, sugar maples are the best because they have the highest sugar content, but you can tap any maple for syrup. Tapping season is when daytime highs are ...

Unlike maple syrup-drenched Vermont and lobster-rich Maine, New Hampshire doesn't have much to call its own in the food world. But it could find a future claim to fame in birch syrup, a nontraditional ...

Deep River Park has been tapping trees for over 40 years; they give the syrup to school groups, sell it at the park store and, most importantly, use it during the Maple Syrup Time celebration. During ...

Birch sap will soon be running as the weather warms up in Mat-Su. Gerald Keene is getting his sap lines in shape north of Wasilla at his 4 Trees Birch Syrup property. Keene tapped 635 birch trees last ...