March is Maple Syrup Time in Michigan

• Great Article! Recipes, facts & history ... The production of pure maple syrup is the oldest agricultural enterprise in the United States and is one of the few agricultural crops where the demand exceeds the supply. Michigan ranks sixth in maple syrup production in the U.S. and produces an average of 90,000 gallons per year. (Battle Creek Enquirer)


• Maple tree sap starting to run with warm-up ... talking with a commercial-scale producer of maple syrup in Leelanau County (Leelanau Enterprise)


• The Cycle of Sweetness: From Sap to Maple Syrup ... Links to great pictures and more information (Michigan in Pictures)


• How to Make Maple Syrup from the Michigan Maple Syrup Association ... family fun with a sweet, sweet payoff!


• Making northern Michigan maple syrup has been a Luchenbill family tradition for more than 100 years (has a link to a PDF photo story!)


• FIVE THINGS: About maple syrup ... Black maple and sugar maple are the trees commercially tapped in Michigan, though the sap from red and silver maples also can be made into syrup. (Detroit Free Press)


• Cranbrook's Annual Maple Sugar Festival, March 11&12, 2006 ... also features Whisper in the Woods, Michigan's Nature Journal (Cranbrook Institute of Science)


• Maple Sugar Festival, Kalamazoo, March 18-19, 2006 ... at the Kalamazoo Nature Center


• Maple Syrup Day, March 25, 2006 ... at Hartwick Pines State Park near Grayling


• History of Maple Syrup ... Some tribes celebrated the return of spring with a "maple moon festival which is known today as "sugar-off time." (Michigan Maple Syrup Association)


• Absolute Michigan's links to Maple Syrup producers & more articles ... if you know of one we're missing, add it or send us a comment!

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Posted/updated Mar 10, 2006
by Andrew McFarlane (Absolute Michigan)

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