A common piece of advice you will hear is to prune trees during the winter while they are dormant. I often give that advise myself and, for most kinds of trees, that is a good rule to follow. However, ...

Prune before new growth begins.

Winter isn't a very exciting time when it comes to gardens and yards. Many plants go dormant, and you may be left with muted colors, bare branches, and not much to look at. So, having a plant that ...

After the harvesting process comes the real work of maple sugaring, which is concentrating the sap into delicious maple syrup. Commercial producers use reverse osmosis, and Kinnan says he is ...

St. Joseph County, Ind. (WSBT) — Maple syrup season is highly dependent on the weather and this winter is providing a head start. There is only a 4-to-6-week window that tapping can happen on maple ...

Open a thin dish towel on a wooden cutting board. Lay your leaf sandwich — preferably including a leaf specifically selected by the hand of a child and carefully placed between two sheets of wax paper ...

If you like to hike or snowshoe in the winter, you might like to learn the names of the trees you see. Do so, and the trees will seem like ...

There’s a common bit of advice that when you can hear spring peepers, it marks the end of the maple sugaring season. At Kettle Ridge Farm in Victor they heard the high-pitched trill of the tiny frogs ...

The art of maple syrup production trails through generations of Danno Potter’s family history. His great-grandfather bought the family farm in the late 1880s and cleared the land for strawberries, ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. WISCONSIN (AP) — This year’s warmer winter ...