By now, you're probably familiar with using maple syrup to sweeten cocktails. But what about its cousin? Here's how to use ...

Maple syrup, naturally sweet with its lush ... is inserted and directs the sap that flows from the trees into buckets. Maple and birch syrups also are similar in color, viscosity and texture ...

The soil in which maple trees grow makes a difference in how much maple syrup can be produced and even how it tastes.

Aspen, beech, and birch sap seen as small niche, but could have potential for new revenue streams for maple producers.

You can tap and make syrup from the boxelder, known as ash-leaf maple, which is a species of maple trees. Sycamores, butternut and birch trees also produce sap that can be turned into edible sugar ...

Maple syrup starts with a tree — and the crowd-pleasing flavor it produces, which conjures images of home and New England, buckets hanging from tree trunks and neighbors and family members ...

You can tap and make syrup from the boxelder, known as ash-leaf maple, which is a species of maple trees. Sycamores, butternut and birch trees also produce sap that can be turned into edible sugar ...

Either way, sugarmakers foresee more adaptation ahead. The tapping of trees for sap or syrup is an age-old practice. Birch sap, like maple, has long been harvested by Indigenous people living in ...

Birch syrup is the dark, wild cousin to lighter and brighter maple syrups. Both are native to Minnesota. (Ashley Moyna Schwickert/For the Minnesota Star Tribune) ...