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.

For Crandon elementary students, science lessons aren’t coming from a textbook, they’re coming straight from maple trees.

From tap to table, local elementary students are making their own maple syrup. After planning and prepping for a year, Summit ...

LaMuth Middle School students are getting a taste of how they can apply science lessons in their own backyards. Seventh-graders at the Riverside district school have been working with staff members ...

Students at Summit Environmental Elementary School traded traditional gym class for a hands-on lesson in making maple syrup.

Sap may flow slowly, but maple syrup production in New York has grown over the past two decades. Here's how Oneida County ...

Evan Braude, a sophomore English/environmental studies major from Knoxville, Tenn., left, drills a hole for a tap as Lisa Beneman, organic garden supervisor, looks on. The two were tapping trees at ...

The St. John's Maple Festival offers hands-on activities like sap collection and syrup cooking this Saturday.