Jack Doyle, Mira David and Audie Wells sell maple syrup at Town Meeting.
Lincoln School third-graders, with the help of Flint Farm’s Nancy Bergen and Ephraim Flint, successfully raised $1,400 for charity as part of a maple syrup science project.
The children collected and measured sap from maple trees and then correlated daily sap production with temperature, finding that sap flows more quickly on warm days. To collect the sap, they tapped three trees on the school campus, and Flint Farm tapped another 40 trees around town, such as along those Baker Bridge Road.
The Flints donated their time and equipment to boil the sap into delicious maple syrup. Third-graders Mira David, Jack Doyle, Law deNormandie and Audie Wells sold the maple syrup at the recent Annual Town Meeting. They sold a total of 22 quarts and 11 pints, and Flint Farm decided to give half of the proceeds ($700) to Codman Farm to support all of the great work they do in town.
The entire third grade also discussed a number of worthwhile charities to which the rest of proceeds could be donated, and decided that this year they will support Save the Children.
—Submitted by Michelle Doyle
Yay Mira, Law, Aubie, and Jack! And thanks to the teachers, Flints, parent volunteers, and Michelle Doyle. Good job all around!
Yup, the Flints and our schools continue to produce “the real deal.”
Thanks to both, we enjoy delicious, unadulterated, pure ambrosia.
Be sure to read the article about maple syrup in the Globe today. We are fortunate to have ours right here in Lincoln. Thank you 3rd grade and your teachers, and Nancy and Ephram!
Sarah Cannon Holden
Credit should also go to the third grade teachers who developed this program and made the project into a wonderful hands on learning experience for the kids.
Thanks third grade team.