Businesses in Dexter, Chelsea, Jackson, and Pinckney will spotlight maple syrup with special events on March 9.
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Tuesday, February 19
It’s maple syrup time! The communities of The Big 400 (Manchester, Chelsea, Dexter, Jackson) are teaming up to celebrate maple syruping in southern Michigan with a festival March 9-10. The festival includes pancake breakfasts, tours of tapping areas and the syruping process, the release of a local maple wine, and lots of good things to eat. There are three locations to choose from for a pancake breakfast March 9. Proceeds from the breakfasts go to support The Big 400 in guiding tourists to our region. All of the events are planned for March 9-10. Travel through the Brooklyn-Irish Hills to area restaurants and taste their specialties. Tickets are available from the Brooklyn-Irish Hills Chamber of Commerce for only $15, and cover tasting at …
The festival will feature maple syrup demonstrations and samples of maple wine.
WATERLOO — It's that time of year again. Trees across southeast Michigan are waiting to be tapped for the production of rich maple syrup. If you've always wanted to know about the process of making the sweet syrup that enhances favorite foods from pancakes and waffles to candy, look no further. Sandhill Crane Vineyards in Jackson is teaming up with the Eddy Discovery Center in Waterloo on March 11 for the first annual Waterloo Maple Festival. The event is the brainchild of Heather Price, executive director of Sandhill Crane, as well as representatives of the Gateway Communities Initiative group, who market the Waterloo-Pinckney recreation areas and the communities surrounding them. "We've been coming up with ideas on how to market the area…
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Sandhill Crane Vineyards
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17030 Bush Rd, Chelsea, MI
Gerald E. Eddy Discovery Center
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