On March 24 families flocked to the numerous maple sugar shacks spread through the state. This wasn’t a random occurrence. Maine Maple Sunday/weekend has celebrated Spring, maple trees and local businesses. Always set for the fourth Sunday in March, this event has been going on for over 40 years. Far before New England was colonized,.
Get Out & Enjoy Maine Maple Weekend, March 27th & 28th
It finally feels like we re starting to write more about things that are actually happening as opposed to things that being cancelled due to the pandemic. Maine Maple Sunday is just the next thing on the list of things that will in fact be happening in 2021.
According to WGME 13, after last year s event was cancelled, more than 100 Maine sugarhouses are planning on participating in the event happening March 27th & 28th. Maine s maple syrup industry creates 575,000 gallons of syrup every year and provides the state with more than $27 million in generated revenues.
Tis the season the begin the process in harvesting that amber gold, otherwise known as maple syrup.
I used to tap for maple syrup almost every year but for the past five seasons I have taken a break. It s not as terrible as it sounds, we only finished the last of our syrup last year but there was just something about this year, perhaps the 40+ degree temps with plenty of sunshine this past Sunday wooed me to the call of the sugar maples.
I m lucky enough to have a fairly large stand of sugar maple trees on my property, sure you could tap any maple tree but the sugar maples have sweeter sap and I believe make better syrup.
Good News For Your Sweet Tooth, Maine Maple Sunday is Back!
It finally feels like we re starting to write more about things that are actually happening as opposed to things that being cancelled due to the pandemic. Maine Maple Sunday is just the next thing on the list of things that will in fact be happening in 2021.
According to WGME 13, after last year s event was cancelled, more than 100 Maine sugarhouses are planning on participating in the event happening March 27th & 28th. Maine s maple syrup industry creates 575,000 gallons of syrup every year and provides the state with more than $27 million in generated revenues.