The Northland is home to several large maple trees. Growing big with very colorful leaves, they dominate the forest in fall. It is hard not to notice their dynamic blended colors at that time. But in ...

Unless you are intent on making your own maple syrup, you probably haven't given tree sap much thought. So, let's take a deeper dive into a tree's 'blood' or sap and the normal flow in the fall for ...

Trees store up energy over the fall and into winter in preparation for the spring, so the sap is the most abundant and sweetest in late winter. The timing is important; it needs to be warm during the ...

Perhaps one of the most common myths about trees, Rachael West said, is that they go dormant during the winter months, falling into hibernation until spring rolls around. But West, founder of Eating ...