Sunday, March 7, 2010

Maple Syrup Festivals & Harvesters


When glorious Maple trees are adorned
with metal buckets you know Spring is in the air,
 at least in cottage country Ontario!

Nature's alarm clock rings loud and clear in the sugar bush as Maple forests become a buzz with harvesters catching a fleeting moment in time to capture the inner goodness of the Maple tree. With oodles of fresh made Maple Syrup just waiting to be tasted, it's time to gather your friends and family to join in the celebrations with local harvesters this Spring.


Maply Syrup Festivals... 

18th Annual Wye Marsh Sweetwater Harvest Festival

The Wye Marsh offers a chance for syrup worshippers to view both the traditional and modern process for harvesting syrup while in the great outdoors. Each day there will be an open fire for warmth and an all day pancake breakfast with fresh Bannock accompanied by live folk music. Live animals and horse drawn wagon rides will also be present to enhance the whole families experience.

Wye Marsh
16160 Highway #12 Midland, Ontario
Phone# 705-526-7809

Saturday, March 27th & Sunday, March 28th, 2010
10 am to 4 pm
Admission is $5
Breakfast is $5
Children 5 & Under are Free

 

45th Annual Elmvale Maple Syrup Festival

Visit Elmvale's spring festival and partake in an entire town's celebration! Enjoy fresh pancakes, sausages and Maple Syrup served up for breakfast all day long. Local vendors bring their shops outside and live bands will entertain on two different stages. There will be a pancake eating contest and a log sawing for those energetic folk along with dancing, pony rides, a Firefighter's display, craft and quilting shows, a book sale at the library. There will also be sugarbush tours and a Midway of rides!

Town of Elmvale
Elmvale Maple Syrup Festival
Saturday April 17, 2010
8 am - 5 pm
Phone# 705-322-6613

Midway Rides
- Friday April 16th 3:00 pm until close
Wrist Band, Pay One Price: $15.00
- Saturday April 17th  9:00 am until close
General Admission all day!


Spring Tonic Maple Festival

Enjoy the taste of spring by visiting the Tiffin Centre for their annual maple syrup festival and enjoy an all day long pancake and sausage breakfast. Tour the sugar bush, take a ride in a horse drawn wagon, view historical reinactments and get your face painted!

Tiffin Centre
Nottawasaga Valley Conseration Authority

8195 Line 8
Utopia, Ontario
Phone # 705-424-1479

Saturday April 10, 2010 & Sunday April 11, 2010

9 am - 3 pm (Breakfast served until 2 pm)
$10 per adult; $5 per child


Go for a scenic drive to...

Killbear's Provincial Park to the 4th Annual Maple Syrup Festival

Mclean's Berry Farm to the 17th Annual Buckhorn Festival

Maple farms...
Shaws' Maple Products & Pancake House
Your hosts Tom & Terri-Lynn Shaw
#493 Oro-Medonte Line 14 South
RR #1 Orillia, ON
L3V 6H1
Phone # 705-325-4347

Call ahead for boiling times and sleigh or wagon availability
Pancake House - March thru April
8:00 am to 4:00 pm


for information on Ontario wide Maple Syrup production, festivals and sugar bushes.

Call ahead to any of the venues if you have any questions and remember to dress appropriately, it's still quite chilly in the forests even on sunny days. Enjoy your family fun everyone!

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