Wisconsin’s thriving maple industry will be on full display this weekend at the Farm Wisconsin Discovery Center.
Guests are being invited to learn all about the maple collection process at the Center, located at 7001 Gass Lake Road in Manitowoc.
While on WOMT’s Be My Guest program with Lee Douglas, Abigail Martin from Farm Wisconsin explained “This time of year, when the nights are freezing, but the daytime temperatures are warm and above freezing is when sap starts to flow from our sugar maple trees here in Wisconsin.”
Martin also explained that her organization is working with the Wisconsin Maple Syrup Producers Association to “highlight and celebrate the maple syrup industry in our state.”
Visitors this weekend will even be able to tap a sugar maple tree log the old-fashioned way.
“You know we like to highlight the newest and greatest things at Farm Wisconsin, but the old school method really wears your kids out,” she joked. “We have the old school hand crank that you drill into the tree, and then the tapper.”
Joining the fine folks at Farm Wisconsin will be several maple syrup producers, including Manitowoc’s own Inthewoods Sugar Bush.
For more details on the event, visit FarmWisconsin.org.
There will be another maple-inspired event in Brown County later this month, as the L.H. Barkhausen Waterfowl Preserve will host their Maple Syrupin’ Public Day on March 26th.
