CEDAR RAPIDS — Year to year, the syrup tastes about the same. But after 40 years, the Maple Syrup Festival has gotten sweeter with time. This year, more than 1,800 gallons of sap joins tens of ...
The Maple Syrup Festival at the Indian Creek Nature Center near Cedar Rapids will mark its 40th year this weekend. The Nature Center’s Jean Wiedenheft says in the early days they tapped mostly ...
People often ask Bob Leary, owner of Farmington’s Forty to One Maple Syrup, how much of the sweet stuff he thinks he will make in the upcoming maple sugar season. He said the best response is to ask ...