Maple Sugarin’

Tune into the Hancock Park District’s YouTube Channel during March, the perfect month for collecting sap from maple trees in Ohio as we celebrate Maple Sugarin’ as a 1 PM virtual experience three times a week.

March Mondays, Wednesdays, & Fridays at 1 PM

Listen to sweet stories on Mondays. Each Wednesday, watch as HPD staff demonstrate how that one-of-a-kind syrup was made and used in the past by pioneers and Native Americans. On Fridays, discover maple tree science. Use your new-found knowledge on the trails at Litzenberg Memorial Woods.

Schedule of Virtual Events

Way Back Wednesdays
March 3: Discover how Native Americans processed maple sap
March 10: Learn how maple tree-tapping spiles were made in the McKinnis Farm woodshop
March 17: See how the McKinnis family made pancakes and served them with maple syrup in the historic kitchen
March 24: Find out how the spiles made on March 10 were used to tap sugar maples to collect sap
March 31: Learn how maple sap was made into sugar (and collect a few maple-y recipes from the McKinnis House)

Discovery Stories (Mondays)
March 8: Sugar Snow—My First Little House Books
adapted from books by Laura Ingalls Wilder
March 15: At Grandpa’s Sugar Bush
by Margaret Carney & Janet Wilson
March 22: Bear Goes Sugaring by Maxwell Eaton
March 29: Harvest to Home Maple Syrup by Lynn Stone

Hit the Trails (Fridays)
March 5: Learn how to identify maple trees in winter
March 12: Discover the Maple Sugaring process
March 19: Sap Science (how and why maple trees produce sap)
March 26: Sap Sucker (meet animals and birds that eat maple sap)