Lisa Gauker held up a bottle of store-bought pancake syrup. “Is this really maple syrup?” the recreation and special events supervisor for the Berks County Department of Parks and Recreation asked.

After a winter marked by true freeze–thaw temperature swings, Hoyt Farm Nature Preserve is looking ahead to an extra-special maple sugaring season. These conditions—when daytime temperatures rise to ...

Join us for this Saturday Nature Kids program to find out how sweet it can be! This one is all about our native Sugar Maple tree - how to find them, where the sugar comes from, and how to turn the sap ...

The perfect pancake topper can be found in Wissahickon Valley Park next month when the area's sugar maple trees will be primed for tapping. Also known as the Tree House, the Wissahickon Environmental ...

In Spring we celebrate changes in nature, and when sap starts rising in maple trees _ it’s a first indication that Spring is right around the corner. Area families gathered at River Trail Nature ...

Maple trees are among the most loved and widely planted shade trees in home landscapes. Maples produce seeds that fall like tiny helicopters from the tree, which kids love to run to and catch. As ...