As winter winds down, and you’re considering outdoor, low-risk activities, making a small batch of maple syrup at home with your family might be a fun and healthy choice. This webinar will provide all the essential information you’ll need to get started, from identifying which of your trees might be sugar maples, to tapping, boiling […]
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Maple Syrup Time in Connecticut
The sap is running and sugar houses are boiling. The maple syrup industry is alive and well when the weather cooperates, providing warm days and cold nights to signal the sugar maple trees to make sap. Maple syrup makers will have to collect 40 gallons of sap to boil down to make one gallon of […]
UConn Sugar House Open Today
UConn Sugar House to be open for sales of fresh maple syrup! The sap is flowing! Members of the UConn Forest and Wildlife Club and UConn Forest Crew are finishing and bottling fresh maple syrup and the Sugar House will be open for demonstration, tours and sales today, Friday, 3/24/2017 from 1:00 pm to 5:00 […]
Sugar Maple – Value, Strengths, Threats and Resilience
By Tom Worthley, Assistant Extension Professor, UConn Extension Hardly an autumn season goes by without numerous writers in magazines, newspapers and websites extolling the virtues of sugar maples for their foliar brilliance and colorful contributions to the Connecticut countryside. Shortly thereafter the late winter and spring can be relied upon to summon forth additional textual homage […]