The essence of the Green Mountain State tastes sweetest when the sap flows and syrup thickens in the annual thaw.

Faced with increasingly erratic winters, syrup makers are tapping into new ways of turning sap into everyone’s favorite ...

EDITORS:—We use sheet iron pans almost entirely, for the purpose of making maple sugar ... The acidulous action of the sap is (certainly very) slight. The manner of setting the pans, arches ...

The sight of a steady drip of sap brought elation to Paula ... is a gleaming stainless steel evaporator built by the Amish in Topeka, Ind. The short maple sugar season consumes all their time ...

They are standing in front of their evaporator machine. The stainless steel barrel on the left is where the final maple syrup product ends up. Photos by Daryl Simons Jr. LAKEWOOD — This year marked ...