By Linda Baine

It’s maple mania at Mountsberg’s Mapletowne from now until April 12.

Weekends, holidays and daily during march break; you can bundle the kids up and take them to see sweet sap turned into maple syrup. It’s a uniquely Canadian tradition.

Mapletowne activities include interpretive horse-drawn wagon rides through the remote upper sugar bush, candy making demonstrations with free samples, a look at a modern working evaporator, as well as old fashioned steaming kettles of sap. Mapletowne’s country store sells a wide range of maple products – cookies, maple butter, popcorn, maple sugar candies and of course, fresh maple syrup.

Pancakes will be cooked up steaming hot and smothered in fresh maple syrup all day in the pancake pavilion, don’t forget the sausage!

Leave lots of time to visit our PlayBarn and to take in our birds of prey presentations.

And if that’s not enough, in March a variety of special guest will be making an appearance in Mapletowne as well:

March 15-Burlington Wood Carvers’ Guild
March 16-Flapjack Olympics - become a FlapJack Olympian!
March 17-Fiddle Music in the Sugar Bush with Steven Fuller
March 18-Weaving demonstrations
March 19-Karen Kurg of Thornbrooke Farms
March 21-July Glen of Glen Farms Herbs & Preserves Inc.
March 28-Craft Workshop with Anna Simmons
April 10-Easter Egg Celebration

Mountsberg is located on Milburough Line, just south of Highway 401, between Guelph Line and Highway 6.

Mapletowne is open 10 am until 4 pm daily during March Break and on Weekends and Holidays until April 12, 2004.