Kenton County Parks & Recreation is hosting Sugar Camp 2017: Making Maple Syrup the week of February 20-25 in Middleton-Mills Park at Shelterhouse 2, 3415 Mills Rd., Covington.
Step into the forest and back in time to experience life in a mid-1800’s sugar camp.
Visit a working sugar camp, demonstrating the art and science of making maple syrup the old fashioned way.
Last year’s Sugar Camp
First, visit an American frontier settler camp and see how one would work with many of the tools and accoutrements used 150-200 years ago in frontier America and the dress representative of the era.
A second camp set up nearby, provides participants an opportunity to see how Native Americans would have lived and worked at the time. See how sap water was processed into hard sugar using hand-hewn wooden bowls and birch bark molds.
Visitors will be encouraged to participate in many of the day-to-day tasks of Sugar Camp! Learn about and make a “spile”; help tap Sugar Maple trees and gather sap; taste unrefined sweet sap water and sample home-made maple syrup.
Call today at 859-525-7529 to make reservations for class-size groups, individuals, and families. Weekday time slots are 10-11:30 a.m., 12- 1:30 p.m., 2-3:30 p.m. and 5-6:30 p.m.
No reservations are necessary for Saturday, February 25. Dates may change due to the weather; however, historically, this is the best week for Maple sugaring in Kentucky.
Bucket Sponsors are welcome. Get your name on a bucket for $20 by February 10th. Your bucket will be use to collect sap water during the duration of the event.
Contact Rhonda Ritzi for more information. Checks can be made payable and mailed to Kenton County Parks, 3902 Richardson Road, Independence, KY 41051.
For news of upcoming programs, activities, and events to be held in Kenton County’s parks, call the Parks & Recreation office at (859) 525-7529, visit the website or follow Kenton County Parks & Recreation at Facebook.com/KentonCountyParks
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Sugar Camp 13 Pioneer Arts Day: Elwood Tapper demonstrating spile-making on shaving horse.
