Forest Preserve District of Kane County will be host to a maple-sugaring event, collecting maple tree sap and cooking up sap into syrup, from noon to 3 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, March 5-6, at LeRoy Oakes Forest Preserve, 37W700 Dean Street in St. Charles.
The public is invited. Admission and parking are free. Registration is not required.
Visitors can learn how to identify maple trees, how to drill and set taps in trees, and simmer sap over an open fire to make syrup.
The preserve’s Maple Cafe will offer hot cocoa and ice cream drizzled with maple syrup. Syrup will be available for sale.
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—Al Benson