CLAYPOOL — Beachler’s Sugar Bush, at 9569 S. CR 600E, Claypool, will celebrate Indiana Maple Weekend from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, March 14. The public is encouraged to attend. The event is a chance to see how maple syrup is made while learning how to tap a tree and using an old-fashioned crosscut …read more.

CLAYPOOL—This weather, with the temperatures fluctuating between freezing and spring-like, has made for a longer and fruitful maple syrup season. Beachler’s Sugar Bush, Claypool, was able to begin tapping its first maple trees as early as Jan. 6, weeks earlier than in previous years.

By MARY ANN LIENHART CROSS Extension Educator, Health & Human Sciences, Purdue Extension Elkhart County I greatly appreciate all of you that have read my column over the years and continue to read it. It is a real bonus when I receive a phone call or email prompted from reading my column, with your questions or …read more.

By MARY ANN LIENHART CROSS County Extension Director, Extension Educator – Health & Human Sciences, Purdue Extension Elkhart County What is your favorite beverage? What beverages do you drink at home, at work, and when eating away from home? I was pleased to hear recently that pop consumption is down a bit and water drinking is up. …read more.

CLAYPOOL — Some call it a woods, others a farm, but maple sugar producers call their production area a “sugar bush,” or “sugar camp,” and Indiana’s first-ever Maple Weekend will open sugar camps around the state so guests can see how trees are tapped, how sap gets to the sugar house and how it becomes maple syrup and other maple products.