Articles written by Mitch Thompson

Mitch Thompson|Apr 17, 2023

"What better way to celebrate the end of winter than enjoying sweet, homemade maple syrup?" Spring can be an exciting time to start getting outside after a long, cold winter in North Dakota. And what better reason than if there is sweet maple syrup as an end result? While we don't have lush forests of sugar maples (Acer saccharum) like our neighbors to the east, we do have a naturally occurring relative with the boxelder (Acer negundo), which is sometimes referred to as the Manitoba maple. The...