ROSEVILLE, Minn. — Songs of spring differ by region, but in Amy Perkins' neighborhood, the music of tree sap hitting metal buckets fills the air. "My first year I collected 115 gallons of sap," ...

MANKATO — Kevin Mattick was perhaps the only person celebrating when the first weekend of spring started with a storm warning. Sure, the fresh snow is making the 31-year-old Mankato entrepreneur's ...

With the weirdly cold spring changing normal production schedules, maple syrup producers have had a rough season. But they have a new advantage, too. Instead of relying on buckets attached to trees to ...

Maple syrup is most commonly made from the sap of the sugar maple, so wherever you see sap buckets– or, more often these days, plastic tubing running through the woods– you are seeing a grove of maple ...

Dear Dr. Dirt: We have a large maple tree growing in our lawn. Just this week, we noticed that the leaves are covered in these misshapen, red “balls.” The tree also looks a little sparse on leaves ...

We love the vibrant colors of maple trees in the fall. These deciduous beauties bring not only great color but also a recognizable leaf shape and (our favorite) whirlybird seeds that helicopter their ...