Even though Somerset County is in the heart of winter, maple producers are already celebrating the oncoming spring. The annual Somerset County Maple Producers' Association tree-tapping ceremony is at ...

Maple syrup season is just getting underway, and clouds of steam rise from the evaporators Derik and Sue Zimmel have set up in the driveway of their Leech Lake cabin to boil away the excess liquid on ...

DEERBROOK (AP) — Jeremy Solin doesn't need a jacket right now on his family farm in northern Wisconsin. There's no snow blanketing the dead leaves in the grove of sugar maples. There, pails already ...

I love winter and have been hoping for a lot more snow, which we got last week, but only after an unseasonably (record-smashing) warm spell. Much as I love winter and want to stay in the moment, that ...

There still may be a few chunks of ice on the lake, but this year's maple yield has already been simmered into syrup. Finally, our first taste of spring. Because sap is collected over several weeks ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Monday felt more like early spring than winter, and our warm weather could mean our landscape will be off-schedule. Sunshine and blue skies can breathe life into the dead of winter, but ...

Sunday felt like a true changing of the seasons with temperatures ranging in the 50s. The sun and heat brought a big spring melt for most of the metro, which was perfect conditions for one of ...

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 ...