A Taste of Tradition: Experience the Magic of Maple Syrup at Wildwood Ranch

(KNSI) – With the start of spring, the sap is flowing at Wildwood Ranch Maple Syrup, and it’s ready to share the magic.

Tucked inside Kraemer Lake-Wildwood County Park at 29709 Kipper Road in St. Joseph is a family-run operation now more than 40 years in the making. They’re again opening up the sugar shack doors to the public for their annual Maple Syrup Tours on two days this month.

The first is Sunday, March 22nd, and the second is Sunday, March 29th, with departure times at 1:00, 2:00, and 3:00 p.m. each day. Best of all, there is no registration required. Just show up, lace up some mud-ready boots, and prepare to be sweetly surprised.

Each one-hour tour begins with a short walk into the maple forest, where guides show visitors two very different worlds of sap collection side by side. Visitors can see the old-fashioned charm of wooden buckets hanging from tree taps, and the thoroughly modern efficiency of vacuum pipeline systems that whisk sap out of the woods without a bucket in sight. It’s a living timeline of an art form that has been practiced in Minnesota for generations.

From the forest, the tour moves into the sugar shack, where reverse osmosis machines and commercial evaporators transform raw sap into the amber syrup beloved on breakfast tables.

For questions and more information, email Shelly at CarlsonWildwoodRanch@msn.com or call 320-248-7784.

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