Prairie Sugar Day

Name: Prairie Sugar Day
Start: 2025-09-27T10:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-09-27T16:00:00-05:00
Location: 15788 Kelley Farm Rd NW, Elk River, MN, United States, Minnesota 55330

Schedule

Sat Sep 27 2025 at 10:00 am to 04:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

15788 Kelley Farm Rd NW, Elk River, MN, United States, Minnesota 55330 | Elk River, MN

Prized in the mid-19th century as a homegrown sweetener, sorghum enjoyed a brief renaissance during the Civil War years when Union blockades made cane sugar a rare commodity. Join our farm hands as they make prairie sugar, also known as sorghum molasses. Help strip the leaves off the sorghum canes, press the canes through a horse-powered press to extract the juice, and stir the juice as it boils down to make a sweet, syrupy molasses. Then, enjoy a sweet treat of molasses confections such as gingerbread and molasses candy.
This event is included in regular site admission.