Natick farm conjures up a different version of Maple Magic
It takes 40 gallons to make one gallon of maple syrup.
NATICK – The snow may be on the ground for weeks to come, but you could hear the first sounds of spring at the Natick Community Organic Farm on Eliot Street on Feb. 12.
Not the crack of the bat, but the whir of an auger drilling a hole (or two) into sugar maple trees.
On a sunny Friday morning, farm Executive Director Casey Townsend and a volunteer, Antonio Nissi, kicked off the maple sugaring season by tapping the farm’s own sugar maple trees. Over the next week or so, the farm will tap between 500 and 800 trees in several towns, said Townsend.