I Love Maple Syrup Season
One of my favorite times of the year
My favorite season is the one I’m in right now. That will also be true at every other time of the year, but I do love this one especially.
I live and work on a farm that is owned by a Montessori school, and much of my life is spent outside on the land caring for animals, raising gardens, and exploring the fields and forests of this 160-acre farm.
We are in Northwest Wisconsin, which is in the Upper Midwest of the United States, and because of our location in the north, we can get very cold winters and very warm summers. That means that get all the traditional seasons.
In my daily connection with the land, I know that there are seasons within seasons. I love them all. We are coming into one of those nested seasons. It is about to be maple sap season.
In the late winter, when the daytime temperatures climb above freezing, and the nighttime temperatures dip back below freezing, the sap flows in the maple trees in the forest on our school’s farm.
The sap is actually always there, but there is something about the freezing nights that builds pressure…
