Maple Sugaring Days a sure sign spring is coming
The sound of robins chirping in the backyard, baseball players getting ready for the long season ahead and later sunsets have some company as favorite signs of spring: Maple Sugaring Days.
The Kane County Forest Preserve District welcomed the upcoming change of season with its annual two-day homage to maple syrup.
Visitors to LeRoy Oakes Forest Preserve near St. Charles were shown by naturalists how to tap a maple tree then got to try the process themselves. They also explored the art, science and folklore of the "sugar bush" or maple grove, from early times to the modern sugaring industry.
Drew Hester and his son Mac, 4, work a bow drill Sunday in an attempt to start a fire as Native Americans once did, during the annual Maple Sugaring Days at LeRoy Oakes Forest Preserve near St. Charles.
Mark Black/mblack@dailyherald.com
Sap drips from a tapped sugar maple tree Sunday during the annual Maple Sugaring Days at LeRoy Oakes Forest Preserve near St. Charles.
Mark Black/mblack@dailyherald.com
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