Making Maple Syrup in Your Back Yard
Have
you always wanted to make syrup from the maple trees on your property? Here's
your chance to learn how. “Making Maple Syrup in Your Back Yard” is the topic
of the Monday, February 8, 2016, meeting of the Cumberland Woodland Owners
Association. Wilbur and Peggy Wolf will
speak about the basics of making maple syrup on a small scale in your own
backyard. Information will include
selection of trees, tapping, sap collection, equipment overview, and boiling as
well as finishing and storing syrup. The
meeting will be at 7:00 PM, at the Franklin County Ag Heritage Building which
is located at 185 Franklin Farm Lane in Chambersburg. The meeting is open to the public. You do not have to be a member of the
association and there is no cost to attend.
The meeting is handicap accessible.
Directions are available at: http://extension.psu.edu/franklin/directions.
The
Cumberland Woodland Owners Association is an organization of forestland owners
and others interested in forestry issues in south central Pennsylvania. For more information about the meeting or the
Cumberland Woodland Owners Association, contact Fred Peabody at 717-776-3565
(email: fredp5@earthlink.net) or Mike
Waldron, 717-677-7317 (email: mdwald57@yahoo.com).
