For everyone who s sick of being cooped up and quarantined, and in need of fresh air, you might remember that among the last annual public fun to be had was the 2020 Maple Taste & Tour, which took place just before the pandemic set in.
Well, the annual Maple Taste & Tour is back in 2021, scheduled for Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on both days.
This year s event features 17 maple syrup producers, mostly in Erie and Crawford counties, with one each in Warren, Forrest County and Venango counties and Chautauqua County, New York. They are opening their doors to visitors (socially distanced and in masks) to taste the sweetness Mother Nature hath poured out.
Blacklick s Shepherd s Corner Ecology Center taps into visitors connection with nature
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Although maple-sugaring tours, which allow guests to tap into trees for sap and their inner spirits for reflection, are booked at Shepherd’s Corner Ecology Center this month, the organization has a yearlong slate of activities that help provide a link to the natural world.
“Give gifts of peace and joy” is written on a sign at the entrance to the 160-acre center, 987 N. Waggoner Road in Blacklick.
Shepherd’s Corner Ecology Center is a nonprofit outreach of the Dominican Sisters of Peace. It has a mission to invite others to experience the joys and responsibilities of caring for land, life and spirit and inspiring others to become shepherds of creation in their own corners of the world, said Sister Rose Ann Van Buren, Shepherd’s Corner administrator.