BINGHAMTON, N.Y. (WBNG) - Students in the building trades class at Broome-Tioga BOCES are producing homemade maple syrup — about 50 bottles per year — using a reverse osmosis system they built ...

It was early April, and his parents were boiling maple sap in the Western New York shack where they produced syrup and other maple-flavored goods. “It was pretty rustic,” Wightman says, “with just ...

Spencer Luthy, owner of Maplewood Farms in Harwinton, said this year he has nearly tripled his maple sap production, as the colder temperatures over winter and historic high temperatures of March have ...

Once the sap had been retrieved, the grunt work may have been over, but the long job of processing it was just beginning. When it dribbles from the tree, sap is anywhere from 1 to 3 percent sugar. To ...