Wye Marsh will be overflowing with visitors and the sweet smells of maple syrup this weekend for the 17th-annual Sweet Water Harvest.

This annual event will take place from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, March 29 and Sunday, March 30. The weekend-long event will include a large variety of activities for the entire family, including taffy tasting, cooking demonstrations, a woodcarvers and wildflower gardeners exhibits, live animal shows, children’s crafts, face painting, and horse–drawn wagon rides – to name just a few.  

Considered one of the top maple syrup events in Canada, the festival will introduce visitors to the various methods of Maple Syrup making, allow them to take a nice walk along the many nature trails and visit the demonstration stations where you can see, feel, smell and taste sugaring off techniques used over the years.   

Saturday is expected to be the busiest day, with the drawing contest results at 11 a.m., cooking demonstrations which will take place four times during the day with faculty from Georgian College, and of course the pancake eating contest at 2 p.m., which will kick off with local mayors competing to see who can down their pancake the fastest.  

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