Maple Syruping in Your Backyard at Fort Snelling State Park
Fort Snelling State Park, nestled between Minneapolis and St. Paul, is holding "Maple Syruping in Your Backyard" workshops on Saturday and Sundays throughout March. Park staff will demonstrate what equipment is required, how to tap trees, and how to process sap into maple syrup.Maple Syruping in your Backyard is held on March 7, 8, 14, 15, 21, 22, 28, and 29 in 2009.
Maple Syrup Madness! at Wargo Nature Center, Anoka
Collect maple sap, boil it down over an open fire, and then taste it. March 15, 2 p.m. - 4 p.m., $4 per person.Pre-registration is required, register online at anokacountyparks.com.
Maple Syrup at Dodge Nature Center, St. Paul
Dodge Nature Center opens the maple syrup season on March 3 with maple syrup events all month long. Two family events on March 7 and 21 invite the whole family to join in the production process, starting with tapping a tree, visiting the maple syrup evaporator, and sampling syrup.The season closes with all-you-can-eat pancake and sausage breakfast featuring the center's own maple syrup on March 21. Naturalists will lead short hikes to show the process of maple sap collection and syrup production, handy to walk off a few of those calories, and at $5 for adults and $2.50 for children, it's one of the best value maple syrup events of the season.
Maple Syrup through History at Murphy's Landing
Learn about the history of maple syruping, visit the sugarbush with a naturalist, and ride on a horse-drawn trolley. Saturday March 21, 11 a.m. – 3 p.m., $7/adults, $5/children.It's Tapping Time at the Harriet Alexander Nature Center, Roseville
On Saturdays in March when the sap is flowing, join Nature Center staff and help tap trees and boil it down into maple syrup.Sap to Syrup at Carl W. Kroening Interpretive Center, Minneapolis
For families with children age 6 and up, discover the process of making maple syrup, view sap boiling and taste syrup.March 12 and March 19, 1 p.m - 3 p.m. Register by contacting the Carl W. Kroening Interpretive Center at 612 230-6400.
M is for Maple at Tamarack Nature Center, White Bear Lake
This event is designed for pre-school children. Hike into the maple sugarbush and find out how trees are tapped, then sample syrup.Saturday, March 7, 10-11.30 a.m. The event costs $8 for an adult and child, $4 for an additional child, and pre-registration is required.
Minnesota Maple Syrup Farms
Brambleberry Farm in Pequot Lakes, MN, sells their syrups online via LocalHarvest.com.Wild Country Maple Syrup in Lutsen, MN, sells their 100% organic maple syrup online, and in Kowalski's markets and some co-ops in the Twin Cities.
Somerskogen Sugarbush is in Minnetrista, just outside the Twin Cities. Join their mailing list to be first in line to get 2009 syrup.
Sapsucker Farms this rapidly growing farm in Mora say they are working on accepting visa online, but currently are selling their maple syrup by e-mail order.
Anderson's Maple Syrup is just over the state line in Cumberland, WI. They sells maple syrup and maple syrup making kits - you just need a maple tree.
