Saturday, March 2, 2013

Maple Syrup Festivals 2013

As Winter becomes Spring, cold nights and warmer days provide the temperature differential to get the maple sap flowing, which means syrup season is here.   

2013 Maple Syrup Events near Kalamazoo
March 2-3 Maple Sugar Madness Sarett Nature Center Benton Harbor
March 2-3 Maple Sugar Time Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore Chesterton, Indiana
March 8 Maple Syrup by Moonlight 7 pm Bendix Woods County Park New Carlisle, IN

March 9 Sugarbush Festival  Blandford Nature Center Pancake Breakfast  9am-12noon Grand Rapids 
March 9-10 Maple Sugar Time Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore Chesterton, Indiana

March 16-17 Maple Sugar Festival Kalamazoo Nature Center Kalamazoo

March 16-17 Sugar Camp Days Bendix Woods County Park, New Carlisle, IN

March 16 Community Sugarbush Tours Blandford Nature Center 2- 3:30pm Grand Rapids

April 19 - 20 Wakarusa Maple Syrup Festival, Wakarusa, Indiana

April 26-28 73rd Vermontville Maple Syrup Festival Vermontville


Also consider
Kalamazoo-area Spring Events 2013

Oakland County Maple Syrup Events

National Maple Syrup Festival Medora, IN

Shepherd Maple Syrup Festival


Maple Syrup festivals in the Midwest (mostly Wisconsin and Minnesota)
Michigan is in the top 10 largest maple syrup producers, a list led by Quebec.  Last fall, thieves raided Quebec's Strategic Syrup Reserve, which producers use to control prices.  21st Century Maple Syrup Production does use some new technology.

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