Somerville Maple Syrup Project

Maple-y Children’s Workshops are at the Library every Saturday in February. Check out the Workshop Flier here!

Every winter, with our partners at the Community Growing Center, the Somerville Public Schools, and Tufts University, Groundwork Somerville taps local maple trees and collect the sap.  Simultaneously, GWS staff and  community volunteers teach a four-week arts and science curriculum to second graders at several public schools.  The season culminates with a spectacular two-day boil-down event held at the Somerville Community Growing Center.  Metal shop students from Somerville High made the evaporator pan and maintain all the equipment each year.  The syrup is given as thank-you gifts to community partners and sold at the GWS stand at the Union Square Farmers’ Market and at Sherman Market.

Follow Somerville Maple Syrup news on Twitter using #mmmsyrup hashtag! Our handle on twitter is @gwsomerville.

Thanks to support from the Friends of the Somerville Public Library, Groundwork Somerville will be leading free Maple-themed children’s workshops at the Library this February. Visit our February Calendar page to learn more about each week’s theme.

*Help us make 2012 even better!*

$12 funds one student’s experience in the Maple Syrup Project
$25 buys a new sap collection bucket
$60 funds a session of the maple education series for a classroom
$250 funds the 4-session maple education series in one classroom
$500 makes you an event sponsor of the Maple Syrup Boil Down (March 3, ’12)

Thank you to donors, volunteers, and sponsors for your support, we couldn’t do it without you!

Read about the 2011 Library Workshops in the Somerville Journal.

Thanks to Aaron Kagan for writing about the project in the Boston Globe

Check out this Somerville News article previewing the 2011 Season

See the coverage of the 2010 Maple Syrup Project on WBUR Radio and in the Somerville Journal

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