On Friday, April 3rd, the Tunbridge middle school students visited the Bogardus Family sugar house, spending the morning helping gather buckets of sap, and the afternoon participating in various maple-themed workshops. In one station, students learned the process of making maple syrup while sampling doughnuts and fresh syrup in their tour of the farm’s sugar house. Students used their creativity to make jewelry out of sap tubing. They used plastic syrup jugs, sap buckets, and sugar maple branches, amongst other everyday instruments, to play music in their “jug band”. In their final station, each pair of students shared a camera and practiced various photography techniques, from portraits, to landscapes, and nature photography. – Jen Thygesen, Farm-to-school Coordinator, Tunbridge Central School, Tunbridge, VT
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