HILBERT — Business was brisk on an average March weekday at Smoky Lake Maple Products. Angela and Jim Schumacher, co-owners of the syrup-focused tool manufacturer, serve several maple syrup producers, ...

Lake Metroparks Farmpark hosts a variety of staple events throughout the year, but its Maple Sugaring Weekend is inarguably its sweetest. More delicious news? The affair means spring is officially ...

RIVERWOODS, Ill. (WLS) -- Maple syrup hikes return to Lake County Forest Preserves in March for a tasty start to spring. The annual tours at Ryerson Woods bring visitors up close to sugar maple trees, ...

From 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., March 5 and 6 and 12 and 13, visitors can discover how real maple syrup is produced by taking a wagon ride down to the Woodland Center to see how sap is collected, boiled and ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - The art of making maple syrup has evolved over the years. There are old wives’ tales that say a Native American chief once hurled a tomahawk at a maple tree, and it exploded in sap ...

Glacial Lakes Conservancy has planned a land walk to explore how maple syrup is made from 10 a.m. until noon, March 19, at the Manitou Maples conservation easement in the Town of Newton. Landowners ...

Silver Lake Nature Center in Bristol is offering a maple syrup making program so you can learn how to tap the trees in your own backyard. And it's led by expert naturalist Jerry Kozlansky. "I prefer ...

Jen Berlinghof knows spring has arrived when she hears the plink plink plink of maple tree sap hitting metal buckets and the call of the chickadees. An environmental educator with the Lake County ...

Sap is flowing: Time for maple syrup hikes, festivals in Northern Illinois. A popular rite of spring in northern Illinois involves tasting the sweetness of tree sap as it begins to flow, signaling a ...