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Please join us for the Lunenburg Maple Festival on Saturday, March 23rd, 2024 from 8AM-3PM. All festivities begin at The Lunenburg School at 8am for an amazing Pancake Breakfast, served until 10:30 a.m. It will be quite the feast! Breakfast includes: pancakes, sausage, home-fries, scrambled eggs, beverages, and maple syrup provided by our local sugarmakers. (Proceeds benefit the Top of the Common Committee).

Make sure to  sign up for the free door prizes, take along a map with driving directions to the local sugarhouses open for visitors and check out the activities at specific times during the day. Also they may choose from take-along maple-theme coloring pages, word searches, crossword puzzles, and UVM backyard sugaring handout.

10am-1pm Stop by the student-led sap boiling demonstration in the parking lot using their grant-awarded evaporator. Visit inside the school with students’ narrating and exhibiting from their sugarmaking unit study.

10:30am At the southern edge of the parking lot, learn from the students the tree tapping process as they tap one of the large maple trees. If you'd like to try your hand at it, take home the available UVM Backyard Sugaring handout!

Judging of the pie contest entries will begin at 10:30 a.m. (learn more about the Maple Pie Baking Contest, including rules, HERE) After the winners are determined, entries will be available for purchase by the piece or as whole pies.

Beginning at noon, through 2pm, the delicious soup and bread luncheon is served. Beverages and a maple dessert are included in the meal. All the soups, breads, and desserts are homemade by our talented community cooks and bakers. (Proceeds benefit the Old Home Day Committee) 

Throughout the day, enjoy and learn from static, interactive, and photographic maple sugaring displays, antique sugaring equipment, and lively dialogs, Purchase maple cotton candy, bake sale goodies, and maple and Lunenburg theme items (including T-shirts and 2024 Historical Society calendar). Lunenburg has a maple sugaring heritage worthy of exploration, appreciation, and honor! Also enjoy the student poster contest entries which express their impressions of maple sugaring season and the artistic creations in fabric by entries in the "Springtime in Vermont" quilt square contest. Winners of the quilt square contest will be chosen by People's Choice vote! (More contest details )