Faucet Into Maple hits the candy spot in Orillia & Lake Nation

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February 24, 2025 – Orillia & Lake Nation, ON

It’s that candy time of yr once more, as Orillia & Lake Nation Tourism presents the ever-popular Faucet into Maple expertise. Operating March 3 to April 6, this system is a chance to go to the area’s maple syrup producers, get pleasure from particular maple-themed experiences, and take pleasure in native maple-inspired delicacies.

This yr’s Faucet into Maple program actually showcases the deep roots of maple in our area with 22 taking part areas together with 7 maple syrup producers providing an array of sugar bush experiences. Take a self-guided tour by means of lesser-traveled routes to working sugar shacks that provide a firsthand view of the maple syrup course of, from harvesting and boiling to having fun with. Moreover, expertise the numerous methods maple is well known by looking for maple merchandise, having fun with a maple infused craft brew or eating out on maple featured menus.

With the quantity of snowfall throughout the area this yr, maple syrup producers are biding their time in preparation for the spring manufacturing. “It’s an quaint, Canadian maple season,” says Brent Beers of Maple Grove Syrup in Severn. With a brand new vacuum system being arrange in his sugar bush, the majority of the set up can solely occur on snowshoes. Regardless of the extended winter in comparison with latest years, producers are optimistic for the maple season forward with faucet traces and buckets in place for when the sap actually stars flowing within the coming weeks. This yr’s Faucet into Maple producers embody Backwoods Maple Syrup, Elsie’s Creek Farm, The Farmgate, Hewitt’s Maple Syrup and Farm Market, Hutchinson’s Maple Syrup, Maple Grove Syrup, Shaw’s Maple Syrup, and Sugar Candy Farms. Guests can stroll by means of a faucet lined sugar bush, see the totally different processes from small scale sugar shacks to bigger amenities, meet the producers who work year-round to make sure the perfect product, and choose up the freshest maple syrup of the season. Make sure to test TapIntoMaple.com for visiting hours at every web site.

In anticipation for the sap to begin flowing, cease by native outlets for much more maple infused merchandise. Go to Chelsea Sweets in Oro-Medonte; Copperpot Nuts in Severn; DWN Craft Chocolatier, Mariposa Market, and Susie Q Fudge & Presents in Orillia; and The Gathering Place in On line casino Rama Resort to select candy maple treats. Many of those outlets have developed partnerships with native maple syrup producers to infuse their candy treats – together with maple chocolate bars, maple-infused nuts, and maple fudge. On Saturday mornings the Orillia Farmers’ Market additionally welcomes distributors like PyrValley Maple Syrup with their specialty maple and birch syrup.

Orillia & Lake Nation’s culinary scene can also be able to have fun all issues maple. Off-Eleven Pizza + Eats, Lake Nation Grill, and Blue Moon Junction will all provide particular eating menu choices that includes maple flavours. For scrumptious specialty drinks and hand-held options, Apple Annies Café and Em’s Café could have maple themed delights from freshly baked treats, specialty drinks, and menu choices. Lastly, high off the top of a self-guided tour by means of the area with a maple-infused craft brew at Quayle’s Brewery together with nice meals and on-site actions for the entire household.

Mark your calendars for household enjoyable occasions to cap off the Faucet into Maple expertise. Over March Break, some maple producers could have extra actions and prolonged hours of operation for households to get out and benefit from the season. On March twenty second and twenty third the Wye Marsh Wildlife Centre hosts the thirty fifth Annual Sweetwater Harvest Pageant with a great deal of household enjoyable actions, scrumptious meals and academic alternatives alongside their companion web site, Saint-Marie Among the many Hurons. On the grand finale of Faucet into Maple, the Ontario Maple Syrup Producers Affiliation presents Maple Weekend on April fifth and sixth. Many Faucet into Maple producers will provide additional occasions, actions, and treats on site-during the weekend to kick-off the spring gross sales of maple merchandise in our space.

Faucet into Maple has one thing for everybody, celebrating and supporting native producers and small companies. Take a look at every location for particulars about hours of operation and reserving forward. Go to TapIntoMaple.com for extra info on the entire taking part producers, companies and actions.

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Media Contact:
Shannon Hawke, Advertising and marketing & Gross sales Coordinator Orillia & Lake Nation Tourism
705-325-9321
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