SOMERVILLE — On a cold, gray Saturday in March, people of all ages made their way to the Somerville Community Growing Center to attend the 24th annual Maple Boil Down. Over the course of the day, 525 ...
Native Americans of northeastern North America have been harvesting maple sap and boiling it into syrup and sugar for many centuries. Various tribes have legends of how this sweet bounty of the ...
It seemed like the 40-degree days would never come, but the phone rang around St. Patrick’s Day with my friend Tom’s calm, steady voice on the other end, “Mark, we have sap running.” The next day I ...