FRANKLIN – About a dozen fifth-grade students crowded around Michael DeMain and a 175-year-old maple tree in the forest preserve surrounding the Wehr Nature Center in Franklin, eager to collect sap on ...

Have you always wanted to learn to tap maple trees to make your own maple syrup? Then you’re in luck because maple syrup season is almost here. The 2025 maple syrup season is on the horizon, so now’s ...

“Nature has its own way of providing us with sweeteners.” That’s according to Five Rivers MetroParks, which has been tapping its maple trees for sap at Carriage Hill MetroPark, located at 7850 E.

Sunday felt like a true changing of the seasons with temperatures ranging in the 50s. The sun and heat brought a big spring melt for most of the metro, which was perfect conditions for one of ...

AUBURNDALE, Wis. (WSAW) --- Students at Auburndale Middle/High School learn maple tree tapping in their school forest as part of their Agriculture class in what the teacher says is a decent maple sap ...

CALUMET COUNTY (WLUK) -- A familiar favorite will be on the menu at the annual Maple Syrup Sunday breakfast event at the Ledge View Nature Center south of Chilton. "I think it's a nice beginning of ...