Celebrate the spring with 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 to 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 Settlers!
Enjoy Ice Cream Sundaes
topped with Pure Maple
Syrup!
2012
Event Partners
The Evjue
Foundation, Inc. the
Charitable Arm of The Capital Times
2012 Media Partners
2012 Preferred Provider Partners
Copps Food Centers
Falbo Bros.
Pizzeria
Papa John's
Pepsi
Terry's Piggly
Wiggly
Schoep's Ice Cream
Company
The Aldo Leopold Nature Center
330 Femrite Drive
Monona, Wisconsin 53716
(608) 221-0404 fax: (608) 221-9095