Spring firsts
Warmer days and sunshine bring the promise of the season to come.
Category: Maple Syrup
Updates on maple syrup season at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum.
The Beginning of a Sweet Season
Tapping into nature with 350 maple trees at the Arboretum.
Maple Syrup Beyond the Pancakes
Yes, it’s the perfect topping to your sweet breakfast foods, but maple syrup also works with everything from ice cream to coffee.
Maple Syrup Season Begins
Tree Tuesday: Maple Trees are producing sap for delicious Arboretum Maple syrup.
First Maple Syrup Update for 2017
By Rich DeVries: Here is a quick Maple Syrup update. We started tapping our sugar maple trees on February 8Continue Reading
31 days
By Richard DeVries We tapped the first sugar Maple on March 7 this year and we pulled all the tapsContinue Reading
Cooking Inside and Out
By Richard DeVries We had a good sap run over the weekend. We emptied the bags on Saturday after theContinue Reading
The Missing Ingredient.
By Richard DeVries Last week the Maple forecast was looking really good. Nighttime temperatures were dipping into the mid-twenties andContinue Reading
Season Extended
By Richard DeVries The return of the colder weather is a sensitive subject. Therefore I won’t tell you that IContinue Reading
And Then There Was Sap
And then the great sap run of 2014 started. For us it was last Wednesday and I hear other sugarContinue Reading
Nature Notes 