On Saturday we went to a maple sugaring event in the Belmont habitat where we could learn how this typical New England tradition was made in the early days and today.

Sandy Fisher a teacher for 20 years  taught us which trees can be used, how to drill a hole into the tree             

           , how we collect the sap of it, how the sap taste directly from the tree outdoors,  how to cook the syrup today and in and old cook stove                               and last but not least we had a chance to eat this delicious sweet syrup on ice cream with dried cranberries and blueberries. To compare this famous Massachusetts syrup to other syrup was really interesting too. My favorite is the New England maple syrup.

We had the perfect day, the perfect weather and temperature and did this in the early start of the season of  Massachusetts Marple Sugaring month of March. We really had a wonderful time. For more pictures go to Maple sugaring in March 2011.