While maple syrup is most commonly used to coat breakfast meals, it has a lot more potential than just simply pairing well with pancakes, according to Ailis Clyne ’17, a maple technician at the ...

Wightman: The mission of the program is to keep the maple industry growing and profitable. And we do that in order to create opportunity for upstate New York. And with the decline of certain other ...

Twenty miles southwest of Cornell’s Ithaca campus grows a forest of sweet trees. The tubing at their trunks carry sugary sap awaiting to be transformed into a crowd-pleasing breakfast staple: maple ...

(WBNG) -- Did you know New York State has more maple trees than any other state? 12 News talked with Cornell Maple Program Co-Director Aaron Wightman on the environmental impact maple trees have on ...

Wightman and the team at Cornell recently teamed up with Audubon New York to launch the Bird-Friendly Maple certification program, which encourages producers to manage their sugar bushes to optimize ...

ITHACA — On Feb. 15, the weather in Lodi, New York, hovered in the low 20s and it snowed, but that didn’t stop chocolatier Claire Benjamin from setting up a table to greet customers outside her store.

Wightman has graduated from the family sugarhouse to the Cornell Maple Program, where he oversees 7,800 tapped trees across four miles of an experimental forest outside of Ithaca, New York. During ...