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Overview

Native Americans discovered the sweet quality of sugar maple sap before written history. For hundreds, maybe even thousands of years, Native Americans would set up camp in a stand of sugar maples during the sap run. The sugar they produced was an important food for them and for the colonists, who learned the process from the Native Americans. It was only during the 1930s when maple sugar took the form we use today: syrup!

Experience first-hand the North American tradition of maple sugaring at Hunterdon County's Maple Sugaring Program. You'll take a trip through time to experience the art of the sugaring process. Along the way you will see an early American Frontiersman taping his trees, visit a sugar "farmer" at his evaporator, and enjoy a Native American story about the discovery of maple sap.

• Session A: 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM

  Session B: 9:30 AM to 10:30 AM

  Session C: 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM

  Session D: 10:30 AM to 11:30 AM

  Session E: 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM

  Session F: 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM

  Session G: 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM

  Session H: 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM

  Session I: 1:30 PM to 2:30 PM

  Session J: 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM           

School Field Trips and Other Organized Groups

• Dates: By appointment February 21 through March 19
• Time: 1 hour programs available 9 am to 4:30 pm
• Cost: $30 for the group
• Pre-registration is required; call 908-782-1158

Also available: Maple Sugar To Go! Let us bring Maple Sugaring to your location. 1 hour, $55 in-County only. Call the office to schedule a program.