Vermont Governor Phil Scott officially opened the state's maple season at Pure Gold Sugaring in Sutton. The Solinsky family, owners of Pure Gold Sugaring, have been producing maple syrup since the ...

BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — Seventy-degree Fahrenheit weather and low sugar content in tree sap have caused one of the shortest maple seasons in over a decade for producers in Vermont, the country’s top ...

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Bottles of vinegar that Sweet Tree Holdings produces under the Maple Guild name. Sweet Tree also produces maple products for a number of other labels. Photo by Anne Wallace Allen/VTDigger ISLAND POND ...

You can have your Daylight Saving Time or your dwindling snow banks or your red-winged blackbirds or your sprouting daffodils. Vermonters know the real first sign of approaching spring is when they ...

We have picks for light and dark maple syrup. Imagine a cold, late winter morning in Vermont. The sun is shining but there’s ...

The nation had a sweet maple season this year, producing more than 5 million gallons of maple syrup, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Vermont - the country's top maple producer - ...

Don Gale started sugaring as a boy, boiling sap outside on a cinderblock fire stand with old steel road signs for baffles. Later his parents would finish the process on the kitchen stove, cooking off ...

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THE production of maple sugar and syrup is a major industry of Vermont. According to official estimates, in a normal sugar year it amounts to nearly 20 per cent of the total agricultural products of ...

[V]ermonters may live amid trees spiked with sap taps, but anthropologist Michael Lange believes a majority are blind to their native sweet spot. “Maple syrup is poorly understood by most of the ...