A sweet time
The 2010 Maple Fest is set for 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. March 14 Snavely’s Sugar Shack, 9409 E. TR 138, four miles north of Republic between SR 18 and SR 19. Paul and Evelyn Snavely’s grandchildren mark the seventh generation who have produced maple syrup on the family farm. The farm has 1,300 taps in eight woods and all sap is collected with buckets. It takes around eight hours to fill a bucket with sap from a maple tree, and 40 gallons of sap to make one gallon of maple syrup. The sap is collected in four-wheelers with tanks, and then taken to a stainless steel, oil-fired evaporator where the sap is processed, boiled and canned when it reaches the maple syrup stage. “To help with this all the work that goes on,” Mrs. Snavely said, “and also the hosting of the Maple Fest, we often call on family and friends.” Maple syrup takes a lot of hard work to produce and the Maple Fest has many things for people to see and do.
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