at the maple festival

We went to the Maple Festival in Highland's county, Virginia. It was so much fun and we had pancakes, ham and sausage for breakfast then real maple doughnuts. They are sinful! We then toured the sugar camps and learned what it takes to make maple syrup. You can check out the website at www.highlandcounty.org

Below is one of the price lists from the cheapest camp we found along with a little info. YUMMY!

The spring babies are so cute! Don't get too close to mom, she doesn't like that.

Here is how they tap the tree to get the sap out. Very high tech system.

The tree sap is then cooked for 8hrs to reduce the sap down to sugar. It takes 50 gallons of sap to make one gallon of maple syrup. No wonder it is so expensive!