NJ maple tree project could pave the way for state’s syrup industry [Video]

• New Jersey may soon establish a viable maple syrup industry through a new project.
• Stockton University in southern New Jersey is leading efforts to produce syrup using red maples, which are prevalent in the region.
• The state has a historical background in maple syrup production, with a small market growing over the years.

Welcome to New Jersey, known around the world for Tony Soprano, Turnpike tolls, chemical plants, and … maple syrup?

If a university in the southern part of the state has its way, the sticky sweet brown stuff you put on your pancakes might one day come from New Jersey.

It’s part of an effort to use a species of maple tree common to southern New Jersey that has only half as much sugar as the maples of Vermont, the nation’s maple syrup capital. The idea is to see if a viable syrup industry can be created in a part of …