This was our third year going to Spring Valley Nature Center for this class. Our activities included a tapping demonstration, boildown and taste test.
We were scheduled to go a week ago but there were thunderstorms so our class was cancelled. Our St. Patrick's Day weather was perfect!
Puppet show
Tasting the sap
Practicing tapping a tree
looking down into the boiling sap
it takes 40 gallons of sap to make 1 gallon of syrup!
To the cabin they go.
When I showed the D'Angelo label to D'Angelo he thought everyone should pay him to get a drink.
Can you taste the difference between real maple syrup and the imitation stuff you buy at the grocerey store?
D'Angelo discovered a caterpillar on the ground.
