Heritage Park Hosts Maple Syrup Making Event

From Heritage Park: Celebrate one of the first signs of Spring at Heritage Park! Discover the basics of making maple syrup from your own maple tree. You will identify and select a maple tree, collect sap, boil it down, and turn it into delicious syrup. Class will finish with a pure maple syrup treat. Michigan maple syrup prodcuts will also be exclusively available for program participants to purchase.

Programs will be on Sunday, March 12 and Sunday, March 26 with three time slots to choose from each day: 10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., 1:00 to 2:30 p.m., and 3:00 to 4:30 .pm. The cost is $7 per person or $21 per family of four (register three, the fourth family member is free). Pre-registration is required, as only a limited number of spots are available. Register early; this program sells out. Please register at the Costick Center or online at http://recreg.fhgov.com.

The Farmington Hills Nature Center is located in Heritage Park at 24915 Farmington Road, between 10 and 11 Mile Roads. Call the Nature Center at 248-477-1135 or email asmith@fhgov.com for more information about upcoming programs.

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