When is elmira maple syrup festival 2017

For more information contact: chordspinnersprez live. But tapping into the sticky goodness is not just for rural residents thanks to the Urban Sugaring Project.

The Guelph-based co-operative allows for people with few maple trees to contribute to a greater pool of sap, and later reap the benefits with a share of the resultant maple syrup.

Organizer John Dennis spearheaded the project three years ago through Transition Guelph. After two successful seasons in that city, he expanded into Waterloo Region.

Dennis explained the idea. John Dennis started an urban maple syrup tapping project called the Urban Sugaring Projects that has expanded into Woolwich Township in its third harvest year. Provide a close-up of your artwork — we need to see your work. Winner announced in The Observer, must be able to pick up prize at our office. Cue the co-operative program. Dennis collects the sap from the Waterloo Region and Guelph, where he has about taps running throughout the season, supplemented by ten of his own, boils it down on his personal wood-burning boilers and divvies the syrup up at the end of the season to all who contributed.

In the greater Waterloo area there are 5,, maple trees; the vast majority of those go untapped. Held this year on Snyder Heritage Farms, the ceremonial first tap was a chance to ring in the start of the maple syrup season. Still, the damp that morning did nothing to dampen spirits, as producers and politicians gathered on February 24 at Snyder Heritage Farms in Bloomingdale to celebrate the.

So the first tap was really more of a last tap; but with the syrup already flowing nicely and the weather holding steady, nobody was complaining. The Wallenstein-based producer has the especially sweet distinction of unseating the winner of the past two years, Maple Tap Farms. Weber, for one, is convinced his syrup really is the best out there.

Speakers at the first tap point-. But there was more to the tap than just dollars and cents, noted KitchenerConestoga MP Harold Albrecht, who was in attendance. Look at what happens at the Elmira Maple Syrup Festival.

People getting together, the volunteers that staff it, and then the support they give to many of the local charitable organizations. Despite the season coming early, Hoover notes that the weather has been great for producers. Still the weather, for the time being, has been cooperative. With pastry blender or two knives, cut in butter until mixture resembles coarse crumbs.

Stir in milk to make soft dough. Gather up and place on lightly floured surface. Knead about 8 times. Roll into x 8-inch 30 x 20 cm rectangle. In small bowl, combine brown sugar, cinnamon and nutmeg; set aside. Brush dough with 1 tbsp 15 mL of the melted butter. Sprinkle apples evenly over dough. Sprinkle brown sugar mixture over apples. Starting at long side, tightly roll dough up; pinch seam to seal.

With serrated knife, cut into 10 pieces. To remaining melted butter; add maple syrup; microwave on high until simmering, about 30 seconds. Pour into 9-inch 23 cm round cake pan.

Place pieces cut side up in pan. It can be a lot of work to do just a little bit of taffy. When people try the taffy, everybody just becomes a kid.

The Optimist Club has their syrup-boiling fires set up in the traditional Gore Park location at the south end of the outdoor mall. The logo is made up of a rainbow of colours, with blues, reds, oranges, greens and yellows, and even a bit of purple in there, and underneath, it says Canada That is what we are trying to do — to create something that has a general attraction to the public.

That is where it all goes. The truck can be purchased through the festival website at www. Everyone is done tapping. Every year they tell the producers to be ready three weeks ahead and this season was three weeks ahead of schedule, so they ended up being a day late.

They need a good freeze-thaw cycle to freeze the trees and night and get the sap flowing during the day. Four days in a row of warm weather is a no-go for tapping. If you want to get into the spirit and tap a tree, backyard tree tapping kits are available on festival day as well as at the WMC and the Woolwich Township office.

He notes people who use buckets to collect sap, rather than tubing and vacuums would be hurt most by the reduced sap flows.

You want the frosty nights. But so far Hoover says the sap. Usually a sugar bush averages between two and three per cent, but two years ago the first couple of runs were really watery, and they were only one per cent.

This meant they had to do a lot of boiling to turn it into syrup. The lack of frost right now is their main concern, however.

The festival will be buying exclusively Maple Tap Farm syrup to serve at the pancake tent on Apr. Maple is also the first agricultural group of the year, which no other commodity group can boast. Kitchener-Conestoga MP Harold Albrecht finished off the speaking portion of the event before guests were treated to a pancake and sausage breakfast with plenty of the sweet stuff.

Maple Tap Farm was named maple syrup producer of the year for the second year in a row in the Elmira Maple Syrup Festival competition. The title, and the right to be the supplier to the Elmira Maple Syrup Festival, came courtesy of a taste test by renowned syrup judges Bev Campbell and Don Giffin.

Andrew Sallans, one of the syrup makers at Maple Tap Farm, along. Jacobs We process about gallons of sap every hour, so it can be tough to get a quality product and be very accurate on that scale. We get a lot more people tasting our syrup. I would always stress to people to always taste what you are buying. It just brings us more recognition. The syrup Maple Tap Farm produces is considered to be amber. Interestingly, the grade of a specific syrup — either golden, amber, dark or very dark — has nothing to do with the boiling process, and everything to do with weather.

It has to do with the time of the year, the way the sap is flowing in the trees and the lines and how warm it is. Created in , the museum features all sorts of historical equipment for making maple syrup and other maple products such as maple candy and butter.

The museum is self-guided, but operator Albert Martin is often there to answer any questions and recount his own maple syruprelated stories. The museum used to be located on the third floor of King St. Jacobs, but has since moved to the basement to share the same space as the St. The museum includes artifacts such as antique servers and sugar molds, rare wood and metal spigots used for collecting sap, sap-tosyrup evaporators and early birch bark containers used for gathering sap.

Many of them are displayed. One of the items they bought is a large wooden collecting tank, which is no longer used for syrup production. In the roughly minute drive from the edge of Guelph to the edge of Elmira, there were about a dozen maple syrup vendors along the highway selling fresh syrup from this year's tapping and boiling. Most of those were Mennonites, renowned for their sugaring prowess. There were plenty of maple syrup vendors as well along Arthur Street, all highlighting the importance of the maple tree and its delectable sap to families and the local economy in this part of Ontario.

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