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‘It might as well be spring’: The fifth season is marked by mud and maple syrup
03-17-2025 1:10 PM

By TINKY WEISBLAT

I still can’t see anything but snow and ice in my Hawley yard, but new life is in the air nonetheless. My driveway has started looking and feeling muddy, a sure sign that the fifth season is upon us.

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Strange start for sugaring season: Sap coming in slower, with less sugar content
03-07-2025 5:52 PM

By ALEXA LEWIS and MADISON SCHOFIELD

When he started tapping trees for the 2025 sugaring season, Paul Zononi of Paul’s Sugar House in Williamsburg was shocked to find that the sap came at a trickle — and with only half of its typical sugar content.


Valley Bounty: Time to tap: Family of sugarmakers continue to chase that sweet promise of maple syrup
02-14-2025 11:30 AM

By JACOB NELSON

Plenty of young kids tap a few maple trees, inspired by the sweet promise of maple syrup. Few become enamored with it to the point of kickstarting a family business. Cooper Deane, who helps run Bear Hill Sugar Farm, is one of them.


Conway, Williamsburg sugarmakers honored at North American Maple Syrup Council contest
11-28-2024 2:31 PM

By ADA DENENFELD KELLY

Two Pioneer Valley maple syrup producers were recently recognized among the best of the best at the annual North American Maple Syrup Council competition, held this year in Portland, Maine.Howard and Jeanne Boyden of Boyden Brothers Maple in Conway...


Maple Valley Creamery plans farmstand in South Deerfield
11-24-2024 11:25 AM

By CHRIS LARABEE

SOUTH DEERFIELD — New life may soon be coming to the vacant farmstand at the intersection of Routes 5 and 10 and North Hillside Road.Maple Valley Creamery, the Hadley-based dairy farm that also operates Maple Valley’s Scoop at the Silos, is eyeing the...


All maple syrups are not created equal: A brief history of the sweet stuff we make from sap
03-19-2024 1:26 PM

By TINKY WEISBLAT

March is Massachusetts Maple Month. Farmers in our area are working around the clock to turn the sap that flows from maple trees into the sweet elixir that New Englanders prize year round.It’s not just full-time farmers who make maple syrup. My friend...


PHOTOS: Maple Month marches on
03-18-2024 5:04 PM


PHOTOS: The sweetest season
03-09-2024 3:10 PM


Massachusetts Maple Month ushers in ‘spring’s awakening’
03-01-2024 3:36 PM

By BELLA LEVAVI

NORTHFIELD — Tree sap being boiled down into maple syrup filled the air with a sweet aroma on Friday as Department of Agricultural Resources Commissioner Ashley Randle celebrated the kickoff of Massachusetts Maple Month by ceremonially tapping a maple...


Area sugarhouses start tapping season early after warm winter days
03-01-2024 2:58 PM

By DIANE BRONCACCIO

The groundhog predicted an early end to winter: did that also mean an earlier start to maple sugaring? Apparently so, according to several maple sugarers in the Pioneer Valley.“This is the earliest we’ve ever started,” remarked Chip Williams of the...


Tapping into sweetness together: Severance’s Maple Products chosen for Maple Month kick-off
02-26-2024 3:22 PM

By EVELINE MACDOUGALL

Maple sap processing season is short, yet Northfield’s Milt Severance thinks about syrup all year. His sweet vocation will be celebrated this Friday, March 1, when his sugarhouse is singled out to host the Ceremonial Tapping that kicks off Maple...


Shelburne resident Helen Gould remembered for maple legacy
04-05-2023 7:50 PM

By BELLA LEVAVI

SHELBURNE — Helen Gould, the woman behind one of Franklin County’s famed maple sugaring breakfast restaurants, died in her home on March 30. She was 96.“Our family is proud of all the hard work and love that Mom shared with Dad, continuing our dairy...

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