From buying equipment to tapping your own trees to boiling the sap, this is the classic, best-selling guide to making maple syrup.
This little book swept maple sugarin' buffs off their feet when it first appeared and is still the top-selling guide to the craft after nearly 30 years in print. Like the previous editions, this one tells you how you can make maple syrup right in your own backyard without having to build a sap house or buy buckets, holding tanks, evaporators and other expensive paraphernalia. Provides detailed "how-to" information, and makes some new and noteworthy revelations-including tips sugarers across the country have shared with the author. 60 black & white photographs, 6 line illustrations
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52 of 54 people found the following review helpful
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Format:Paperback
This book has an overarching philosophy - keep it simple and keep it cheap! The authors describe everything you need to know and stress not having to pay for anything you can get for free. This quest for free stuff that works well is one of the pleasures of hobby sugaring. Well written descriptions of all the processes. Lots of photos. Reading it makes you wish the sap would start flowing NOW! Highly recommended
35 of 35 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is the do-it-yourself book that got me started on that sweet rite of spring -- making my own maple syrup. The author's emphasis is on how to do it efficiently and very cheaply, using easy-to-find materials you can scrounge yourself. If you have the trees to tap, by all means get this book! (Hint: they don't have to be the sugar maple species. Try other maples as well. I get great syrup from box elders, which I considered "trash trees" until I learned they are in the maple family. Now I treasure them like gold.)
My own sugaring set-up is total simplicity: just some old refrigerator grates set on top of cinder blocks, heated with odd scraps of wood that fell from trees in our woods, or that others have thrown away at construction sites, etc. (Much better than having those go in the landfill!) The sap is boiled down in flat baking pans, then finished off on the stove inside. Except for the initial expense to buy some professional spiles for tapping (you can make those, too, but I'm a failure as a tinsmith) and the propane it takes to finish a batch, I have spent ABSOLUTELY NOTHING for the 3-4 gallons of syrup we make each year. Not a bad return for a book that I cost me less than ten bucks!
My own sugaring set-up is total simplicity: just some old refrigerator grates set on top of cinder blocks, heated with odd scraps of wood that fell from trees in our woods, or that others have thrown away at construction sites, etc. (Much better than having those go in the landfill!) The sap is boiled down in flat baking pans, then finished off on the stove inside. Except for the initial expense to buy some professional spiles for tapping (you can make those, too, but I'm a failure as a tinsmith) and the propane it takes to finish a batch, I have spent ABSOLUTELY NOTHING for the 3-4 gallons of syrup we make each year. Not a bad return for a book that I cost me less than ten bucks!
14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I remember fondly the early Michigan spring from my childhood, helping my father collect sap. This more than anything fueled my desire to make my own syrup. This book, Rink Mann's "Backyard Sugarin'" is an excellent book to get you off without breaking your back or your bank account. The author has a delightful writing style that is thoroughly engrossing. The book is well illustrated, full of ideas and rock solid on exactly when, how and what to tap, and exactly how to process all that sap. I highly recomend this book. Even if you don't live in sugar country you will enjoy this book.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars
Got to have this Book to make Maple Syrup
I used this book almost exclusively in my first attempt to make maple syrup.
Asked friend and even went to a group to learn, but nothing was more help than this book. Read more
Asked friend and even went to a group to learn, but nothing was more help than this book. Read more
Published 5 hours ago by stephan
3.0 out of 5 stars
Great book - Bad e-reader version
Great book. It's entertaining, short and to the point with all the information I needed. The pictures did not show up correctly on my tablet.
Published 1 month ago by B. Kellen
5.0 out of 5 stars
Good read
Very interesting read. As I try more natural things the idea of making my own syrup is novel. The book tells of other trees that can be used. Read more
Published 1 month ago by David L
5.0 out of 5 stars
Good Book - all the beginner needs
Very succint and to the point. Perhaps the area of building fire pits to boil the sap is a bit too detailed with increasingly sophisticated rigs - but that is a small point for an... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Coticon
5.0 out of 5 stars
we are new to maple syrup
we have an 8 acre woods with several maple trees and decided this spring to venture into te world of sap gathering and cooking. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Theresa Alexander
3.0 out of 5 stars
Maple Syrup
I knew most of what was in the book. It was some what helpful, just not quite enough for me.
Published 1 month ago by Victoria Rathert
5.0 out of 5 stars
Backyard Sugarin' - highly recommended
my husband decided to make his own maple syrup this year; found this bound for him searching thru Amazon; he loves it - everything you need to know is contained in this book;... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Barbara Ward
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great book on backyard maple sugaring
My husband and I decided to try tapping our maple trees this year. Since we live on a very limited budget, and also on only one-third of an acre on suburban Long Island with 5... Read more
Published 2 months ago by The Cacklin' Hen
5.0 out of 5 stars
Love it
Bought this book with a pack of 4 spiles. We are new to tapping maple trees and were watching youtube and looking online, but it was like we were patching information together. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Danielle Smith
5.0 out of 5 stars
Good read
Good inexpensive ideas for the backyard boiler some innovative ideas to build inexpensive evaporators.
General sugaring and different ways to get it done
General sugaring and different ways to get it done
Published 2 months ago by Jason Guevin
