{"id":66078,"date":"2016-03-06T15:19:30","date_gmt":"2016-03-06T20:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=66078"},"modified":"2016-03-06T11:25:07","modified_gmt":"2016-03-06T16:25:07","slug":"stone-quarry-hill-art-park-celebrates-the-art-of-maple-syrup-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=66078","title":{"rendered":"Stone Quarry Hill Art Park Celebrates the Art of Maple\u00a0Syrup Production"},"content":{"rendered":"

New program provides hands-on experience for students<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\"Stone<\/a>(Cazenovia) It is maple syrup season at Stone Quarry Hill Art Park. The Art\u00a0Park has teamed up with Cazenovia School District, the SUNY College of Environmental Science and\u00a0Forestry\u2019s Department of Landscape Architecture, Next Generation Maple Products, and Critz Farms\u00a0to tap and collect sap from the Art Park\u2019s maple forest (the \u201cSugar Bush\u201d).<\/p>\n

The Art of Maple Syrup Production program began in the fall of 2015 when students in the agricultural science classes at Cazenovia High School visited the Art Park to identify, map, and\u00a0measure the maple trees on the Art Park\u2019s property. Next Generation Maple Products donated taps\u00a0and buckets and Critz Farms has been purchasing the excess sap the students collect. The program\u00a0serves about 40 Cazenovia students and has grown to include 14 SUNY ESF landscape\u00a0architecture students enrolled in Professor Matt Potteiger\u2019s Food Studio.<\/p>\n

High school students will host a public boiling demonstration Saturday, March 19, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. SUNY ESF students will offer a Slow Art\/Slow Food event Saturday, April 9,\u00a0and will\u00a0feature maple syrup and wild leeks (ramps). Both events will take place at the Art Park and will include\u00a0tours of the Sugar Bush.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis program is a wonderful\u00a0opportunity to welcome students, members of the community, and local business owners to utilize the\u00a0facilities of the Art Park,” said Stone Quarry Hill Art Park Executive Director Emily Zaengle. “We hope to grow this program each year. It\u2019s a natural fit. We\u2019re surrounded\u00a0by a landscape of maple trees and maple syrup production. The goal of the program is about creating\u00a0a hands-on experience for the agricultural science students.<\/p>\n

“Thanks to our partners, we were able to\u00a0get it off the ground this year. As the program grows, we will also involve our artists-in-residence.\u00a0Imagine sap lines as sculpture, the drips of running sap as music, or a sugar shack as architecture. This\u00a0is what art in nature is all about.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, with 104 acres of conserved land and more than four miles of trails, overlooks\u00a0the breathtaking rural landscape of Cazenovia and Madison County, New York. Inspired by the relationship between art and nature, the Art Park is dedicated to providing a unique environment for the showcasing of art by emerging and established artists in natural and gallery settings. Its mission is\u00a0to educate and engage the public through exhibitions, collections, interpretation, and community outreach programs in the arts.<\/p>\n

Stone Quarry Hill Art Park is open from dawn to dusk and encourages the public use of its trails 365\u00a0days a year. For more information, visit www.stonequarryhillartpark.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New program provides hands-on experience for students (Cazenovia) It is maple syrup season at Stone Quarry Hill Art Park. The Art\u00a0Park has teamed up with Cazenovia School District, the SUNY College of Environmental Science and\u00a0Forestry\u2019s Department of Landscape Architecture, Next Generation Maple Products, and Critz Farms\u00a0to tap and collect sap from the Art Park\u2019s maple […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23679,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agfarming","category-arts-and-entertainment"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-hbM","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}