Retired teacher Larry Weber, of Barnum, is the author of “Butterflies of the North Woods" and “Spiders of the North Woods," among other books. Reach him via Katie Rohman at [email protected].

It's sap-tapping season in our state. In this week's Finding Minnesota, John Lauritsen shows us how an Otter Tail County man ...

Spring is making its way here in Mni Sota Makoce (the Land of Cloudy Waters), and Waziya (Old Man Winter) is finally heading ...

The Smokey House maple project was launched in 2024. In 2025, the team will begin setting up two research and demonstration sugarbushes in order to collect sap from over 7,000 trees across the ...

Financial expenses are compounded by how labor-intensive it is as producers drill a hole and add a spout to each tree ... it’s also shortened it. Sap doesn’t flow every day, he said, ...

David Lamb was 14 when his mother, Nancy Erickson Lamb, married Canterbury Shaker Village director Charles "Bud" Thompson and moved herself and her two sons on to the complex. The young David ...

Dogwood and many other deciduous trees and shrubs are best pruned in late winter or spring. Apply preemergent crabgrass preventer to lawns before crabgrass seeds sprout, which begins when soil ...

There are about 75 maple trees in the area. With buckets and tools in hand, the group of 60 split up to tap sap. “There are lines of sap running up and down the trees. And then when you drill a ...