Celebrate the spring with Maple
Syrup Fest—a
family-style festival at the Aldo
Leopold Nature Center.
This year's Maple Syrup Fest will feature ten stations set throughout the nature center grounds to lead visitors, at their own pace, through the history of maple syruping and related craft and activities. Naturalists will tap the maple trees on the nature center grounds and collect sap in buckets to make the syrup. See the sap boil over a roaring fire as it concentrates into "liquid gold". When the sap is boiled, the sap's naturally occurring water evaporates as steam, leaving the sap and its sweetness to concentrate into maple syrup.
Location: Monona Campus
Registration: Pre-registration preferred but walk-ins are welcome!
This year's Maple Syrup Fest will feature ten stations set throughout the nature center grounds to lead visitors, at their own pace, through the history of maple syruping and related craft and activities. Naturalists will tap the maple trees on the nature center grounds and collect sap in buckets to make the syrup. See the sap boil over a roaring fire as it concentrates into "liquid gold". When the sap is boiled, the sap's naturally occurring water evaporates as steam, leaving the sap and its sweetness to concentrate into maple syrup.
- Tap and Taste real MapleTree Sap!
- Test your "Nature Smarts" with Maple Syrup Trivia!
- Increase your Knowledge of Trees with "Build-A-Tree" Game!
- Learn from a Real "Tapper" how Maple Syrup is made Today and the Old-Fashioned Way!
- Tour the Rustic Children's Shack!
- Take part in Cooking Demonstrations with Early Pioneer Settlers!
- Enjoy Ice Cream Sundaes topped with Pure Maple Syrup!
- Partners with American Transmission Company, Alliant Energy Foundation, Cuna Mutual Group, Group Health Cooperative of South Central Wisconsin, The Evjue Foundation and Madison Gas and Electric.
Location: Monona Campus
Registration: Pre-registration preferred but walk-ins are welcome!
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