Award-winning Syrup Flows at Fairbanks Birch Sap Cooperative
— led by Janice Dawe — took first place in the 2019 Birch Syrups World Challenge held in Russia April 27-28. This is the second victory to the organization — it first won in 2017.
The birch syrup is the product of an annual cooperative. This year, 57 participants — including households, K-12 classrooms and homeschool families — delivered 3,750 gallons of birch tree sap to OneTree’s sap-to-syrup production facility in the Lola Tilly Commons building. Participants delivered sap during an early and exceptionally long season (March 27 through May 3). The 20-plus gallons of syrup produced from the sap is delicious and ready for distribution and sales.
OneTree participated in Alaska Agriculture Day on May 5 at the Georgeson Botanical Garden on the Fairbanks campus. It also enjoyed hosting four field trips to the STEAM Studio during the sap collection season — with 80 home school families from the BEST, Cyberlynx and Kinderwoods Forest School programs from mid-March through early April.
OneTree Alaska, part of the ÎÞÂëÂÒÂ× School of Natural Resources and Extension, is an ACEP partner for science, technology, engineering, art and math (STEAM) programs sponsored by the .
For more information on OneTree products and events, please contact Jan Dawe at 907-474-5517 or jcdawe@alaska.edu.