It was fun and rather exciting to talk about maple tapping on Fox 29 News 10 days or so ago. Please check out the coverage. When you are...

As I head into another planting season I’ve been considering trees. Trees create a place. Oak Lane Maple is in large part a celebration...

Check out the great article in Philly Magazine.

While walking with a forester in East Oak Lane in January I started seeing the neighborhood and its trees through his eyes. I have only...

When the pandemic started I had one goal that stood out more than any other (besides surviving). That my children would believe that...

Is it over? Is this the end? Seasons come and go. And maple’s is rather short here. There may be more. Or not. The weather looks...

Close to 200 people attended today's goat and maple walk with Philly Goat Project at the Awbury Arboretum. I spoke, answered dozens of...

Between Saturday and Thursday morning, we collected 135 gallons of sap from black, red, silver, and sugar maples in East Oak Lane and...

Well, it happened. Yesterday, after collecting over 80 gallons of sap in one day from 40 trees my body had had enough. My hip failed and...

The other day a friend of mine, a farmer, activist and organizer said "farming is community development." I've been trying to approach...

I spend many of my days outside, often in the sun, regularly getting wet. I am tired from all the activity but in a good way, and I am...

When I lived in Fishtown I learned a little bit about the Lenape from historians and activists involved in the Penn Treaty Museum and...

I'm not known as very handy but I am learning to be more so, because often it just seems I need to be. As January was kicking in I...

More than the syrup, for me at least, maples and this whole maple tapping effort just keep feeding me with creative energy. Perhaps its...

Creating an urban maple tapping effort isn't that easy. There's a lot to plan for and the more trees that come online the more you need...

Tapping a tree is a commitment, a promise. Once you drill that small hole and place the spile (or tap) in the tree you feel a...