MONTEREY, Tenn. (WATE) – For the past 50 years, the Guenther family of the Muddy Pond Sorghum Mill has been serving up sorghum providing sweet treats to all who visit them in Middle Tennessee. With ...

This is a traditional Southern sweetener, made from the juice of sorghum cane that has been boiled until it reaches a syrup consistency. John and Emma Guenther, who live in the small Tennessee ...

“It looks like corn, but it puts grain on top,” said Dennis Buchda of Fall River, who emerged from clouds of smoke to explain the sorghum-to-syrup process. “This is cane sorghum. We squeeze it through ...

ABINGDON, Va. — The sweet smell of boiling sorghum syrup was in the air at Fairview Historic Homestead last Friday when members of the Old Glade Antique Tractors Association (OGATA) took turns ...

In a normal year, Mark and Sherry Guenther would be having the time of their lives and bringing in much needed income to support their business—Muddy Pond Sorghum. But 2020 has been anything but ...

Not so long ago, many farming families in Southern Appalachia celebrated the long-anticipated arrival of the harvest season with a special treat: fresh sorghum syrup. Today, thousands still flock to ...

LYNNVILLE, Iowa (AP) -- A squeeze, a hiss of steam and a bubbling boil turn the green juices of sweet sorghum cane into amber syrup in the Maasdam Sorghum Mills on a farm near Lynnville. The syrup is ...

Fall has arrived, and with it all the beauty of the leaves changing colors, pumpkin patches, and huge fields covered with bales of hay for the winter. The mountain slopes are a kaleidoscope of dark ...

Harold Richardson Jr., right, and Gary Hart, both of Richmond, feed sorghum cane Tuesday evening through a mill at the Madison County Fairgrounds in the process of making sorghum to be sold at this ...

The sight made Jean Purcell slow her car until it had come to a complete stop on the Madison County road. What caught her eye that November morning in 1959 was the “awkward piece of equipment” puffing ...