Looking for local maple syrup orchards and sugarworks in Calgary area of Alberta? There are also listings for every other state, tours, festivals, syrup making demonstrations, history, facts, related events and fun!" Scroll down this page and you will see the aall of thoses in Calgary area of Alberta, sorted by county. ALWAYS call before you go to confirm the info, they don't always report changes to me!
And if you know of one I missed and want to add it or correct the information, please let me know!
December - The new sapping season starts in late winter; typically from mid-March to mid-April in most maple-syrup producing areas, when temperatures are below freezing at night and above freezing during the day. Tours usually begin in early Spring! That's a great time to visit a maple sugar orchard or sugarworks and see a sugaring demonstration; watch them make maple syrup!
Where are Maple Syrup farms/orchards/sugarworks, etc.? Well, they're not in Hawaii or Florida, for sure. They are concentrated in the northeast and upper midwest in the US and the eastern half of Canada, even though maple trees do grow in the northwest. That's why the areas below (in states outside of the Northeast and Midwest) have no listings! Although, there is research to develop trees that can produce sap/syrup in warmed climates.
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Unfortunately, there are NO commercial maple syrup orchards, farms or sugarworks anywhere in Alberta!
There WAS a Calgary Maple Sugar Festival, "celebrating and promoting the Alberta Francophone community" that started in 2002, held in Heritage Park Historical Village and organised by the Association canadienne-française de l’Alberta in Calgary.
But as of February 2021, there website is gone and there's nothing current to be found on the internet about it.
It is odd, Alberta's climate is suitable to growing sugar maples. But no one (aside from one hobbyist manually tapping a few maple trees, Ray and Cheryl Stewart, north of Edmonton making maple syrup, is doing it
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