For more than 15 years the Cereal City Sunrise Rotary Club has helped out and supported the Athens Maple Syrup Project and this year the organization begins its 75th Season!
• Thursday, March 7, 2024 at Athens Maple Syrup House, 7:00 a.m. 315 W. South St. Athens, MI
We will have a brief meeting, a great breakfast served by the Athens Youth Council volunteers and see some of the Maple Syrup boiling and bottling. This is always a great meeting. Feel free to bring the kids. Syrup will be available for purchase.
The Maple House is always open for visitors and tours during the production season, Late Feb through most of March, depending on the weather and sap flow.
If you would like to be placed on the Robo-Call list to help with sap collection and volunteer at the house, contact J.R. Brunner at 269-317-7593. Sap collection typically occurs around 4:00 p.m. when the sap bags fill, typically 2-3 times a week.
Over the past 75 years, this project (which was once a Rotary project) has raised well over $350,000 for the Athens Youth Council and the Athens community.
Here are some Michigan Maple Syrup Facts from the Michigan Department of Agriculture http://www.mi-maplesyrup.com/.
• Maple syrup production is the oldest agricultural enterprise in the U.S.
• Maple syrup is Michigan’s first crop harvested each year.
• Michigan ranks 6th in maple syrup production in the U.S.
• Forty gallons of maple sap are needed to make one gallon of syrup
• Average maple syrup production in Michigan is about 90,000 gallons per year
• Michigan produced 148,000 gallons of pure maple syrup in 2013
• The 2013 maple syrup season was the longest on record at 32 days
• Economic contributions of the pure maple syrup industry to Michigan are nearly $2.5 million annually
• There are an estimated 500 commercial maple syrup producers in Michigan with some 2,000 additional hobby or home-use producers
• Maple syrup is one of the few agricultural crops in which demand exceeds supply
• Thursday, March 7, 2024 at Athens Maple Syrup House, 7:00 a.m. 315 W. South St. Athens, MI
We will have a brief meeting, a great breakfast served by the Athens Youth Council volunteers and see some of the Maple Syrup boiling and bottling. This is always a great meeting. Feel free to bring the kids. Syrup will be available for purchase.
The Maple House is always open for visitors and tours during the production season, Late Feb through most of March, depending on the weather and sap flow.
If you would like to be placed on the Robo-Call list to help with sap collection and volunteer at the house, contact J.R. Brunner at 269-317-7593. Sap collection typically occurs around 4:00 p.m. when the sap bags fill, typically 2-3 times a week.
Over the past 75 years, this project (which was once a Rotary project) has raised well over $350,000 for the Athens Youth Council and the Athens community.
Here are some Michigan Maple Syrup Facts from the Michigan Department of Agriculture http://www.mi-maplesyrup.com/.
• Maple syrup production is the oldest agricultural enterprise in the U.S.
• Maple syrup is Michigan’s first crop harvested each year.
• Michigan ranks 6th in maple syrup production in the U.S.
• Forty gallons of maple sap are needed to make one gallon of syrup
• Average maple syrup production in Michigan is about 90,000 gallons per year
• Michigan produced 148,000 gallons of pure maple syrup in 2013
• The 2013 maple syrup season was the longest on record at 32 days
• Economic contributions of the pure maple syrup industry to Michigan are nearly $2.5 million annually
• There are an estimated 500 commercial maple syrup producers in Michigan with some 2,000 additional hobby or home-use producers
• Maple syrup is one of the few agricultural crops in which demand exceeds supply
