Maple syrup season is a special time in New England. Also known as maple sugaring season, it’s the period when the nights freeze and the days thaw, causing lightly sugary tree sap to run.

Maple syrup is a way of life in New England and sugaring season brings tree tapping, maple on menus, and interactive events for family travel in Connecticut, Vermont, Maine, Massachusetts, New ...

It’s peak maple sugar season and there’s no place better to get into the thick of it than New England. Maple trees are tapped across the region, from Rhode Island to the northern points of Maine.

The maple trees of New England give us many things. Beautiful fall colors, habitat for animals, lumber, shade, and roots that hold the soil in place.

2014 Syrup Yield — New England (all states except Rhode Island) used nearly 7 million taps to produce 2.05 million gallons of maple syrup, which is about 65 percent of the nation's syrup yield.

Maple producers across New England who are collecting sap from sugar maple trees and boiling it down into syrup are welcoming visitors during maple syrup season. CNN values your feedback 1.

“Maple syrup season is a special time in New England,” said Adam H. Callaghan in Food & Wine.In February and March, as temperatures routinely cross above the freezing point when night turns to ...

Maple trees — and the sap that flows through them — reign supreme for syrup-making in New England. But with a record-warm winter , some maple syrup producers have seen a decline in their ...

But maple trees re-establish quickly and tend to block sun from ... A small 16 ounce bottle of Oregon syrup might cost $20 — more than what you’d pay for twice as much New England maple ...

Many New England towns are verdant, and the area is roughly 75 percent forest — forests that have generally grown back twice, ... Bear LeVangie pointed to a fungus on a maple tree, ...

Maple producers across New England who are collecting sap from sugar maple trees and boiling it down into syrup are welcoming visitors during maple syrup season. CNN values your feedback 1.