Maple sugaring is about to kick in to high gear and several of our wildlife sanctuaries are ready to celebrate the sweet season. Find out how you can take part—and be sure to register early to guarantee a spot!
Boston Nature Center, Mattapan
During Maple Sugaring on February 24, tap, collect, and boil down sap from the maple trees found. Find out about the different techniques and equipment used across New England and why sugar maples are so unique.
Drumlin Farm, Lincoln
During Maple Magic on March 2, visit the maple grove to check the taps and taste some sap. Learn how maple syrup is made from past to present and delight your taste buds with a sweet maple treat.
Listen to a story of maple sugaring and take a walk out to our sugar bush as part of Sip Some Sap on March 8. We’ll check out our evaporator to see how sap is turned into syrup, and enjoy a tasty maple treat.
Sign up for a seating at Sap-to-Syrup Breakfast on March 10 or 11 to enjoy homemade pancakes, roasted potatoes, and sausage! After, see how sap is collected from our majestic maple trees.
Habitat Education Center, Belmont
At the annual Sugaring Celebration on March 3, everyone can learn how maple syrup is made from sugar maple trees. Try few sugaring activities, hear stories, and visit a few places on the property including our tapped sugar trees.
During From Sap to Syrup on March 4, adults can learn how to identify the various maple species and taste sap right from the bucket!
Kids 5 and under can Go to the Maple Tree with their parents on March 6 or March 8. Taste the sap, make maple leaf rubbings, and hear a sugaring story!
Blue Hills Trailside Museum, Milton
Maple Sugar Days at Brookwood Farm in the Blue Hills Reservation on March is scheduled for March 24-25. Walk down “Maple Lane,” meeting people who share the maple story and who will help you handle and use sugar making tools. Activities include games for children, a warming bonfire, and horse-drawn wagon rides.
Moose HIll, Sharon
Experience the sugaring process from tree to table and learn how sugaring has evolved from Native American to colonial to our own current procedures during Maple Sugaring Weekend 90-minute guide tours. Sign up for time slot on March 17, 18, or 25. End with a sweet snack!
Ipswich River, Topsfield
We do all the work and you get the reward when you Rent a Bucket. In addition to taking home an 8-ounce bottle of syrup at season’s end, you will have a hands-on opportunity to tap your tree at a special sugaring tour on Saturday, February 24.
Sugaring Off Tours take place weekends in March. Learn how to identify a sugar maple, observe tapping and sap collection methods, watch the sap being boiled down in the sugarhouse, and get a sweet taste of the final product.
On March 24, enjoy a Spring Flapjack Fling & Sugaring Off Tour. Flapjacks with our own maple syrup, along with fruit, orange juice, coffee, tea, and milk are on the menu.