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I love January in upstate New York. Daylight length is getting longer, little by little, each day that passes. Winter temperatures are setting in, and the nighttime temperatures are creeping

SENECA FALLS — Cornell Cooperative Extension of Seneca County is hosting a Backyard Maple Syrup Workshop from 5:30-7:30 p.m. on Jan. 24 at the Seneca Falls Community Center.

Schuyler County offers workshop on making maple syrup Schuyler County

WOODSTOCK, Vermont — As the sun rises, the ethereal song of a wood thrush echoes through Bourdon Maple Farm’s 55-hectare (135-acre) forest in Woodstock. A bright scarlet tanager wings about the canopy as hungry yellow-bellied sapsuckers drill into tree bark. At the height of maple sugaring season, birds provide a comforting soundtrack for the farm’s […]

The Cornell Maple Program offers an online trove of eating—and drinking!— ideas for the state’s signature sweet elixir

MEXICO - Cornell Cooperative Extension of Oswego County (CCE Oswego) will host a free virtual workshop from 6:30-8:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 30. Join them for an introductory workshop on

David H. Neuroth was at his final rounds of the year in his syrup-making tasks when I talked to him as he went about collecting buckets off tapped maple trees,

OSWEGO — For the second year in a row, members of the public are invited to celebrate National Arbor Day with the Canal Forest Restoration Project team at Rice Creek Field Station via a free online webinar conference on Friday, April 30. The conference lineup includes six 45-minute webinars offered between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. on April 30. Speakers hailing from as close as the city of Oswego and as far away as the Chicago Botanic Garden will highlight different projects and perspectives on fo...

rlg24@cornell.edu Taps have to be set … even in waist-deep snow. (Provided photo — South Meadow Farm Maple Sugarworks) Maple Christmas Candies are made at Cedar Brook Farm Maple Confections in Malone (Provided photo — Cedar Brook Farm Maple Confections) A patient gentleman in a warm parka and recycled mittens sits patiently outside of the sugarhouse at South Meadow Farm Maple Sugarworks in Lake Placid. (Provided photo — South Meadow Farm Maple Sugarworks) Th...

Across the north country, the traditional sugar-making season is underway. Most Northern New York maple syrup producers get busy tapping their trees in late February or early March, in preparation for the greatly anticipated four to six weeks of sap flow generally expected to begin in mid- to late March and continue on into April. The sugar-making season and the weeks that follow are an extremely important selling period for maple syrup-producing farm families. Many of them participate in Maple...