The Bradford pear (Pyrus callerana "Bradford") was originally developed as a way to help control fire blight in pear trees. Fire blight can be a devastating bacterial disease in fruit trees. In the ...

Trees are master multitaskers. No duty is too daunting or tedious for these sky-scratching organisms. From soil stabilizers ...

As visitors gather at sugarhouses across the state this weekend, March 22-23, and next weekend, March 29-30, for Maple ...

As steam rises from sugarhouse cupolas and early morning coffee pots, sugar makers are working overtime to turn maple sap ...

Pruning is a crucial gardening task when it comes to maintaining the garden, but it's really important to get the timing ...

As steam rises from sugarhouse cupolas and early morning coffee pots, sugarmakers are working overtime to turn maple sap into ...

For generations, Vermont’s maple syruping industry has enjoyed a profitable, sustainable, and fairly stable place in the ...

However, forest health is increasingly threatened by climate change, which amplifies pest and pathogen outbreaks, leading to large-scale tree mortality and disruption of forest ecosystems, ...

As the warm days (around 5 C) alternate with cold nights, the sugar maple’s unique cell structure works like a pump. A negative pressure is formed in a tree’s cells at night, sucking the sap up to ...

Real maple syrup has not only sweetness and natural flavor but it also has all of the minerals and other nutrient compounds a tree needs to grow and thrive. Those minerals and nutrients are the ...

But this winter’s sustained, freezing cold was actually good for the maple trees because they — like other native plants, insects and critters — are adapted to the cold, Farrough says.