CCE’s Winter Maple School Scheduled for December 11
Published: November 16, 2021at 02:00 p.m.
By: Press Release from Cornell Cooperative Extension
of Lewis County
Cornell Cooperative Extension
Lewis County
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Nick Altmire
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Telephone
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315-376-5270
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Email
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mel14@cornell.edu
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Website
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ccelewis.org
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FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 21,
2021
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Winter
Maple School
Join your
fellow maple producers on Saturday, December 11th at the Lewis
County Education Center 7395 East Road, Lowville for a full day of
workshops and hands on learning offered by Cornell Cooperative Extension of
Lewis County. Registration starts at 8:45 am with four workshops covering
everything from spout types, timing of tapping, new maple products, to
updates on the “Super Sweet Tree”. Hands on workshops will be held on
Confections, Tubing Installation and an Sugarbush Management Woods Walk
right next to the Education Center at Maple Ridge’s Sugar Bush.
This Winter
Maple School will offer a Beginner Maple Workshop providing an overview of
the basics for making maple syrup, the how, when, and why of sap flow along
with a hands-on activity with tapping. Boiling, grading, packaging, and
selling will also be covered.
The Watertown
Oswego Small Business Development Center will be onsite to talk with maple
producers about their services and be available to do one on one
consultations.
Pre-registration
is available for $10. and walk ins that day at $15. All social distancing
guidelines will be followed, and masks are required inside the
building. For more information you
can call Cornell Cooperative Extension of Lewis County at 315-376-5270 or
visit their website at ccelewis.org.
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