Maple Sugar Festival
*The event has already taken place on this date: Sun, 04/03/2016
Hike through the sugarbush and take in the sap, syrup and sugar process.
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Start your visit at the Nature Center and walk on the Maple History Trail. As you hike through the recently expanded sugarbush, you'll see more trees tapped with modern tubing and stop at stations to see how collecting sap has changed over time.
- Watch steam rise from the evaporator pan and smell the aroma of syrup in the air as you visit our new Sugar Shack and see sap boiled down into delicious maple syrup in a modern evaporator.
- Find out how to identify a Sugar Maple tree, how tall they grow and how big and old they need to be in order to tap them.
- Try your hand at using some of the metal tools, buckets and spiles used when tapping trees.
- Go back in time to the early 19th century and see some of the techniques and tools that early settlers would use to collect sap in order to make it into maple sugar.
- See what it’s like to manage sap buckets on a shoulder yoke.
Don't forget to grab some delicious, freshly-made maple cotton candy or maple popcorn (additional fee)!
The Historic Village will also be alive with activity, as the townsfolk make the tools needed for tree tapping and the maple syrup is used for cooking in the kitchens.
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Organization:
Genesee Country Village & MuseumLocation:
1410 Flint Hill Road PO Box 310
Mumford, NY, 14511United States
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Phone:
585-294-8218Contact name:
Program Registrar
Email address:
The event has already taken place on this date:
04/03/2016
Time:
9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Price:
$10 for adults; ALL KIDS (18 & under) ARE FREE!
Ages
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