Southern Indiana Living Magazine - Jan / Feb 2023
January / February 2023 issue of SIL
January / February 2023 issue of SIL
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The highlight of the festival is<br />
naturally the food: pancakes and<br />
sausage served with LM Sugarbush<br />
Maple Syrup is the traditional choice,<br />
but there are plenty of other options,<br />
including Nic’s spicy maple-glazed<br />
BBQ ribs, maple baked beans, maple<br />
cinnamon roll with maple crème, you<br />
name it, it probably has maple in it –<br />
coffee, tea cocoa, candy, coated nuts.<br />
The farm is one of the largest maple<br />
syrup producers in <strong>Indiana</strong>, averaging<br />
500 to 700 gallons per year.<br />
The last full moon before the beginning<br />
of spring was called the Sugar<br />
Maker (sogalikus) by Vermont’s<br />
Indigenous Abenaki peoples. According<br />
to one legend, they learned<br />
to make maple sugar from the squirrels.<br />
The European settlers learned to<br />
make maple syrup from the Native<br />
Americans and the sugar moon or<br />
sap moon was listed in the Farmer’s<br />
Almanac as one of the names for the<br />
first full moon in March.<br />
At LM Sugarbush, this moon<br />
signals that it is time to prepare for<br />
spring with the sweetness of maple<br />
syrup on one’s lips and gratitude for<br />
the rich bounty of maple trees on the<br />
land they have tramped since childhood.<br />
•<br />
The annual Maple Syrup Festival will<br />
be held <strong>Feb</strong>ruary 25-26 and March 4-5,<br />
<strong>2023</strong>. For more information, go to lmsugarbush.com<br />
or call 812-967-4491.<br />
20 • <strong>Jan</strong>/<strong>Feb</strong> <strong>2023</strong> • <strong>Southern</strong> <strong>Indiana</strong> <strong>Living</strong>
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