Maple Sugaring is Subject of UMaine Lunch Program March 15
Contact: Patty Henner, (207) 581-4115, George Manlove, (207) 581-3756
ORONO — Backyard maple sugaring is the focus of a University of Maine brown bag lunch talk March 15 from noon to 1 p.m. at the Page Farm and Home Museum on the Orono campus.
Kathy Hopkins, an extension educator in the university’s Somerset County Extension Office in Skowhegan is the scheduled speaker. Hopkins is an authority on backyard and commercial maple syrup operations, and runs a small farm with her husband in Norridgewock.
She’ll discuss necessary equipment and the sugaring process, from maple tree-tapping to boiling sap down to maple syrup, says Patricia Henner, Page Farm and Home Museum director.
The public is welcome to the free event. Visitors are invited to bring a bag lunch. Additional information is available by calling the Page Farm and Home Museum at (207) 581-3756.
The talk comes less than two weeks before March 27, Maine Maple Sunday.