Maple Education & Extension
About the Program
The Yale Forests’ Maple Education & Extension Program is designed to be a resource for aspiring sugar producers and backyard enthusiasts alike, across Southern New England. We’ll cover everything from sap collection to maple silviculture to syrup processing, offering you some tools to be more resilient to the impacts of climate change and to manage for a resilient, healthy sugarbush. If you want to be notified about all of our upcoming programming, please sign up for the Quiet Corner Initiative mailing list.
The following schedule of maple workshops will be held in 2022. Please email schoolforests@yale.edu to RSVP, and fill out a vaccination attestion form to be exempted from Yale’s mask policy.
Intro to wood evaporator and reverse osmosis use
Date: Saturdays March 5th and 12th
Time: 12:00pm - 3:00pm
Cost: Free
Location: Yale-Myers Forest – 150 Centre Pike, Eastford, CT
Advanced syrup processing and filtering
Date: Saturday April 23
Time: 9am - Noon
Cost: Free
Location: Yale-Myers Forest – 150 Centre Pike, Eastford, CT
Maple Silviculture: sugar maple regeneration and timber harvesting
Date: Saturday July 16th
Time: 9am - Noon
Cost: Free
Location: Yale-Myers Forest – 150 Centre Pike, Eastford, CT
Maple Silviculture: sugar maple regeneration and timber harvesting
Date: Wednesday July 27th
Time: 9am - Noon
Cost: Free
Location: Great Mountain Forest - 201 Windrow Rd, Norfolk, CT
Producer to producer knowledge transfer on sap collection and processing
Date: Tuesday, October 4th
Time: 4:00-6:30pm
Cost: Free
Location: Justamere Tree Farm in Worthington, MA
Sap collection: tubing system installation and sap storage
Date: Saturday October 22nd
Time: 9am - Noon
Cost: Free
Location: Yale-Myers Forest – 150 Centre Pike, Eastford, CT
This three-year initiative is supported by a grant from the USDA Acer Access and Development Program.
Past Workshop Topics
5/16” Tubing Systems & Tapping Techniques - Jan. 27, 2021
For the material covered in this workshop, please see our videos on 5/16” tubing systems and maple tapping. A recording of the Zoom Q&A Discussion Session is available here.
