Village Condominium Association

Maple Sugaring Time
by J. F. Weiler

Cold nights and warm days are perfect sugaring weather, and the Codman Community Farms' Sugar Shack is busy boiling down sweet maple sap. The sap is gathered from the Sugar Maple (Acer saccharum) trees along Baker Bridge Road off Route 126 in Lincoln. Henry David Thoreau walked down this road many times when he traveled from Walden to Flint's Pond years ago.

In the fall, maple trees store starch, which becomes sugar when the sap rises in the spring. It takes about ten gallons of boiled-down sap to make one quart of syrup! American Indians taught the European immigrants how to gather and make maple syrup. Sugaring was so important to the Indians that they named the first full moon of spring the Sugar Moon.

The maple syrup is available from the Codman Community Farms store, 58 Codman Road, Lincoln. For more information, phone 781-259-0456 or go to www.CodmanCommunityFarms.org

The syrup is great! I have been using it as a sweetener in coffee and on breakfast pancakes.

Garden Lectures & Events

Wednesday, March 7 at 7 pm. FREE
Invasive Plants: Just too Overwhelming? by Seth Wilkinson Cambridge Public Library, 449 Broadway. phone 617-354-0502

Wednesday, March 14 to 18th. Tickets $20.
Boston Flower & Garden Show
Seaport World Trade Center, Boston.
phone 781-237-5533 or www.TheBostonFlowerShow.com

Tuesday, March 20 at 7 pm FREE
Irises in the Garden by Linda Corapi
Waltham Garden Club meets at The American Legion Hall,
215 Waverly Oaks Rd., Waltham www.WalthamGardenClub.com

Village Garden Committee
Please join the Garden Committee to tour the Village Gardens monthly this June, July and August to select the nicest garden and courtyard. To join, phone Debby at the Village Office, 617-923-1684 or e-mail Joe at WeilerPhotoGallery@Comcast.net

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Written for the Mar. 2012 Village Newsletter.