Sugar Creek Maple Farm
Join us to learn more about the maple syrup process!!
Tapping trees for Maple Syrup
When you’re pouring gooey, sweet maple syrup on a stack of pancakes, did you ever wonder where it comes from or how it’s made?
Sugar Creek Maple Farm was established in 2009 by fourth, fifth and sixth generation maple syrup producers. Our ancestors began making maple syrup in the late 1800’s in a small patch of woods on our family’s 150 acre farm in Vestal Center, New York. The first sugar shack had two sides and a roof and produced dark, smoky flavored syrup.
Sugar Creek Maple Farm
Friday, Feb 24, 2023, 01:00 PM
2490 Glenwood Rd Vestal, NY 13850
Agenda
1pm - Educational program about tapping Maple trees
2pm Tapping Maple Trees - we will go into the woods and tap trees, experience the cooking process and, most importantly, taste test!
Please dress accordingly for the outdoors & the weather.
Outings
1. In consideration of our students with serious allergies, please refrain from bringing nut (food) products or balloons.
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Purpose: Social & Educational
Learning Objectives:
- Participants will learn about the history and process of maple sugaring
- Students will learn teambuilding skills and cooperative learning
- Participants will learn how to tap the trees to collect maple syrup
- Students will learn about the cooking process that produces maple syrup
Educational Hours to log into OLS:
Students may log 60 minutes in History and 60 minutes in Science