Join Coggeshall Farm as they celebrate nature's bounty in the form of maple sugar. There is hardly a more joyous time of year than when the sap runs sweet from the trees. Native people from Canada to Massachusetts have long celebrated the period called, "sugar month" or "maple moon". Depending on local climate, this period falls somewhere between mid February to mid April. Come and learn how early Anglo Americans regarded and adapted this well established practice of distilling precious sugar from the sap of the maple tree.
Coggeshall Farm will be demonstrating the sugaring process from tree to sugar using late 18th century tools and techniques. Other period demonstrations will take place in he farm house. Come and learn how to make delicious sugar from the sap of your own trees. This year Coggeshall Farm will be selling some of their sugar, supply may be limted so come early!