Chase those winter blues and visit Millbrook Village for a taste of maple syrup or maple sugar. The sugar maples are tapped and the sap is flowing. See how the “Mud Season Harvest” is transformed from sap to sweet maple sugar. North America’s Native American Indians taught the colonists how to make maple sugar long before the first European honey bees were brought to the new world or the first sugar cane or sorghum was planted in the South. A truly North American tradition and an early necessity and industry, maple sugaring will be demonstrated as it was done years ago along with other activities.

Does thunder chase the sap back into the ground? What makes the sap rise? Why don’t you “stir the pot” when the sap is being cooked down? What is a “sugarbush”?

Bring your questions and your curiosity to Millbrook Village and enjoy a few hours of old time maple sugaring, a visit to the general store and the wagon or woodworkers shop.

We’ll be waiting for you and hope to see you there. As usual, it’s all free.

The Maple Sugaring Program is presented by the National Park Service and Volunteers from the Millbrook Village Society. The event will be held “Rain or Shine”.