For U.S. Army veteran Mitchell Hoyt, a sugar maple tree in all its fall glory is much more than mere eye candy. For Hoyt, producer of Skinny Sticks’ handcrafted pure maple syrup, it goes beyond ...

Deciduous shade tree. Advertisement Other common names: Sabinal maple, western sugar maple, uvalde bigtooth maple, canyon maple, southwestern bigtooth maple, plateau bigtooth maple, limerock maple.

Sugar maples attract 297 species of butterflies and moths, providing a source of food for baby birds and other insect-eating birds.The two-winged seeds, known as samaras, are eaten by wildlife.The ...

The Southern sugar maple closely resembles the sugar maple, but it is native to and does well in the Deep South. It is a smaller species, growing to about 25 to 30 feet, and has somewhat smaller ...

They started making maple syrup just in small batches, a couple of gallons at a time for personal use, and then worked their way up to the current sugar house, which Jeff built in 2013.