Hale Farm’s Maple Sugar Festival and Pancake Breakfasts begin March 7

• Hale Farm and Village is internet hosting its annual Maple Sugar Festival and Pancake Breakfasts on weekends in March.
• The occasion permits company to see the historic technique of turning maple sap into syrup.
• The competition continues a convention began by C.O. Hale within the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
• Tickets are $25 for adults and $16 for youngsters, with breakfast served till 2 p.m.

Things are about to get downright sappy at Hale Farm and Village.

The deep freeze and fast warmup has offered the peerlessly candy recipe for the historic web site’s sugar maple bushes.

And the timing couldn’t be any extra good.

This Saturday, March 7, marks the beginning of Hale Farm’s Maple Sugar Festival and Pancake Breakfasts.

“I was nervous since we had such a harsh winter and we were delayed in tapping our trees but to my surprise the sap is flowing,” mentioned Stephanie Lero, director of Hale Farm and Village. “I guess the trees are as excited as us for it to finally be spring.”

At the competition, company can watch because the sap slowly drips from the bushes after which is taken to C.O. Hale’s 1910 Sugar House the place it’s transformed into maple syrup in a wood-fired syrup evaporator.

Over the following 4 weekends, some 8,000 individuals are anticipated to dine on pancakes and wander the grounds and witness firsthand how C.O. Hale, the grandson of Western Reserve pioneer Jonathan Hale who settled the farm, would collect the sap and make maple syrup.

Guests can strive their hand at tapping a tree and go to the identical wooded space the place Hale would collect his personal sap for making syrup on the historic farm nestled within the Cuyahoga Valley National Park.

“This event goes back to the 1980s for Hale Farm and Village but it actually goes back to C.O. Hale’s time managing the Hale Farm,” Lero mentioned. “During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, C.O. would tap over 120 acres of maple trees and that was a heavy task without helpers, so he would invite visitors to stay at the farm and aid him in tending to production of maple syrup.”

The Hales would name these gatherings of helpers, she mentioned, Maple Sugar Parties.

“Not only would C.O. and his wife Pauline invite the public to visit the Hale Farm for the day to come see how it was done and help with the production, but they also invited school kids,” Lero mentioned. “And all of this is what we do today still in 2026 and to us at Hale Farm and Village, that is what makes this event so special to us.”

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The pancake breakfasts mark the unofficial begin of the spring and summer time season at Hale Farm.

Thousands of college children are anticipated over the following few months for area journeys to get a hands-on style of what life was once like for early settlers in northern Ohio.

“This year especially, the buzz around history and celebrating America 250 − visitors, volunteers and employees are excited to start off our programming season,” Lero mentioned. “This year we are excited to show guests what we have been working on for preservation work on our historic structures, opening up the Cranz Farmhouse for overnight stays and amplifying our programming to celebrate America 250 with more trade demonstrations, historical figures making a few appearances throughout the year.”

How a lot are tickets for Hale Farm’s Maple Sugar Festival & Pancake Breakfasts?

Hale Farm’s Maple Sugar Festival & Pancake Breakfasts are from 10 a.m. to three p.m. Saturday and Sundays on March 7-8, 14-15, 21-22 and 28-29.

Tickets are $25 for adults and $16 for youths ages 3 to 12.

Breakfast, in partnership with Acme Fresh Markets, is served till 2 p.m.

For extra, go to wrhs.org/plan-visit/places-to-visit/hale-farm-village.