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.
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Tap and Taste real MapleTree
Sap
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Test your "Nature Smarts"
with Maple Syrup Trivia
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Increase your Knowledge of
Trees with "Build-A-Tree"
Game!
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Learn from a Real "Tapper"
how Maple Syrup is made
Today and the Old-Fashioned
Way!
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Tour the Rustic Children's
Shack
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Take part in Cooking
Demonstrations with Early
Pioneer Settler Women
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Enjoy Ice Cream Sundaes
topped with Pure Maple
Syrup!
Fun
for Families & Funds for the Aldo
Leopold Nature Center
11 am to
9 pm, Noodles & Company will
generously donate 25% of sales to
ALNC!
DOUBLE
YOUR FUN! Savor lunch or
dinner at Noodles & Company (6520
Monona Drive at Pier 37) before or
after attending Maple Syrup Fest to
benefit ALNC children's programs.
You will need to present a Noodles &
Company benefit certificate at the
restaurant to validate the donation.
Certificates are available at
ALNC, at the registration table at
Maple Syrup Fest, or you can
click here to download one. For
more information or to request a
flyer, call 608-221-0404.
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