This year will be the seventh season the Sissons, who run Bittersweet Maple Farm in Berne, have used this sugar house. Last year, they made 518 gallons of maple syrup. Mush the dog guards the sugar ...

LENOX — Bill and Elaine Markham built their current sugarhouse on New Lenox Road 40 years ago, but their roots in making maple sugar go back much further. Elaine's father ran his own sugaring ...

While sugar makers are busy tapping, boiling and bottling syrup, Baystaters are also keeping busy — eating liquid gold, that is. So-much-so, that about 50,000 to 60,000 gallons of maple syrup are ...