Maple Syrup Fest

It's Maple Syrup Fest time! 

Join us at the Aldo Leopold Nature Center for a unique and exciting experience. Maple Syrup Fest is a family-style festival to celebrate spring and learn all about maple syrup and the history of this age-old tradition. 

This year's Maple Syrup Fest will feature ten stations set throughout the Nature Center grounds that will 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.

Come enjoy all of these activities:

Tap and Taste real Maple Tree 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 Settler Women
Enjoy Ice Cream Sundaes topped with Pure Maple Syrup! 

So join us for

Maple Syrup Fest

Sunday, March 27, 2011
1-3pm

Monona Campus

Members: $6/person or $20/Family
Non-Members: $7/person or $25/family