The Aldo Leopold Nature Center
invites the public to celebrate
spring at 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 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.
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 Settler Women
Enjoy Ice Cream Sundaes
topped with Pure Maple
Syrup!
Premier Partner
2009
Event Partners
(2010 to be determined)
The Evjue
Foundation, Inc. the
Charitable Arm of The Capital Times
2009
Media Partners (2010 to be
determined)
2009
Preferred Provider Partners (2010 to be
determined)
Copps Food Centers
Cubs
Piggly Wiggly
Sam's Wholesale
Schoep's Ice Cream
Company
Woodman's Food
Market
The Aldo Leopold Nature Center
300 Femrite Drive
Monona, Wisconsin 53716
(608) 221-0404 fax: (608) 221-9095
