TOPSFIELD – (Radio-Video-Photo Gallery) Below find complete details on tours, times, registration, and costs.
MAPLE SUGARING TOURS AT MASS AUDUBON’S IPSWICH RIVER WILDLIFE SANCTUARY IN TOPSFIELD
Radio Interview with Laura Coulbourn – Audubon Society – with Bill Newell
Maple Sugaring Demonstration – with Gary Johnson
Celebrate the coming of spring as sugaring season gets underway at Mass Audubon’s Ipswich River Wildlife Sanctuary in Topsfield. Sugaring tours will run on Saturdays and Sundays, February 27 & 28, at 12:30 p.m. and 2:30 p.m., and on March 5 & 6 and March 12 & 13 at 10:30 a.m., 12:30 p.m., and 2:30 p.m.
On a one-hour naturalist-guided tour, learn how to identify a sugar maple tree, observe tapping and sap collection methods, discover how sap becomes syrup in the sugarhouse, and get a sweet taste of the final product. Rain or shine. Warm up after your tour by the woodstove in the barn, where homemade soup and baked goods, maple sugar candy, other maple products, and the sanctuary’s own maple syrup, are available for sale.
Tour fee: $10/adults, $8/children (Mass Audubon members: $9/adults, $7/children). Children under 3 are free and should be in a backpack.
Advance registration is required. Call 978-887-9264 or register online at massaudubon.org/ipswichriver.
