March 6, 7, 12, 13, 14, 19, & 20.
Geared for grades 2-12
This guided tour takes place at the Nature Center ONLY. If you are interested in visiting both the Nature Center AND the Historic Village for maple-themed programming, see our maple festival geared for school groups HERE.
Groups will explore the history of maple sugaring guided through a series of stations:
- Practice tapping a tree
- Meet our cooper and learn why his trade was so important to maple sugaring
- visit our modern sugarhouse and learn how we make maple syrup today!
- See what a 19th century sugar camp may have looked like, and how the community came together to make maple sugar
- venture out into the woods and explore our “maple history trail” on it you will learn about the evolution of tools used to collect sap
- understand the science behind maple products, what is sap? why does it “flow” through a tree”? why do we tap sugar maples?
- taste the difference between “pancake syrup” and maple syrup over two silver dollar pancakes.
