While the sap of the hybrid trees has a lower sugar content than sugar maples, technology improvements have increased the yield from the hybrids. Currently, Ohio maple syrup producers tap red and ...

Let’s go out to greet the first ephemerals before their brief exuberance concludes as trees leaf out.

The president of the Wadena Area Growers Association taps his maple and birch trees on his Sebeka farm north of Wadena to produce syrup he also sells at the Wadena Farmers Market.