When "Clergyman" wrote his letter, most Vermonters who made maple sugar only produced enough to meet their own families’ needs.

The Auburndale School Forest is currently filled with tree taps and lines collecting sap from maple trees around the land. On school days, students come out to the forest to check on the older ...

“It’s the reason the maple industry in the Northeast has been able to expand because we have access to many more consumers and people are using maple syrup year round, not just buying it at a farm ...

“As long as it’s real Vermont maple syrup and it’s not the fake artificial corn syrup stuff, I’m good with it,” Raymonde said.

The sap is running in the North Country. Maple producers in New York, Vermont, Quebec ... which produces lines of maple syrups that are as different from each other as types of wines or chocolates.

Lines are spread between trees to transport maple sap from the trees at Sugar Oak ... second highest maple producing state, only behind Vermont — would be celebrating as tariffs push people ...

Maple syrup is not just some fun, feel-good symbol of Vermont; according to the Vermont Maple Sugar Makers’ Association, the state still leads the nation as the top maple-producing state ...