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Backyard Sugarin': A Complete How-To Guide, Third Edition

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Author: Rink Mann
Creator: Daniel Wolf
Publisher: Countryman
Category: Book

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Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars

6 reviews
Sales Rank: 89907

Media: Paperback
Edition: 3
Pages: 96
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 9 x 6 x 0.3

ISBN: 0881502162
Dewey Decimal Number: 664.132
EAN: 9780881502169
ASIN: 0881502162

Publication Date: February 7, 2006
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•	Paperback - Backyard Sugarin'
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Editorial Reviews:

Product Description
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, index.

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5 out of 5 stars

Backyard Sugarin' March 17, 2008
A. D. Cox (northern PA, USA)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful

Tioga County is farming country and most farms in these parts used to have a sugar shack. Vermont might get better promotion and produce more, but there's nothing better than Grandma's flapjacks topped with homemade syrup from the farm. If you've a hankering for homemade and want to try making your own, then Backyard Sugarin': A Complete How-To Guide, by Rink Mann will show you how.

This book tells you how you can make maple syrup right in your own back yard without having to build a sap house or buy buckets, holding tanks, and other expensive paraphernalia. Think of it as sugar on a shoestring. The author goes over the basics of selecting your trees, homemade evaporators, the boiling down process and includes tips from small-time sugarers from across the country.

Author of "Hobo Finds A Home" about a barn cat who wanted more out of life and editor "Of A Predatory Heart" outdoor stories that will make you laugh and cry.

5 out of 5 stars

Excellent Step by step guide for everybody January 10, 2007
Michal Dusik (Italy)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

It doesnt matter if never made maple syrup and you are a newbie like me, or you are a pro. These simple techniques will explain to you how and why make excellent maple syrup. Lots and lots of good advice from somebody that really knows the sugarin process in the backyard. This also means that you can make your own syrup without spending a fortune but buying simple little things or reusing everyday use things for the whole process.
Its more of a dialogue of your grandpa teaching you than a guide.

5 out of 5 stars

Great guide December 26, 2006
Monica L. Stathers (CT, USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

We have a 300+ year old sugar maple in our back yard. For the past few years we have tapped it each spring and boiled down the sap for the best maple syrup! This wonderful little "how-to guide" has given us a lot of pointers and info we were not aware of before. Easy to read and understand too. Just a nice little reference book.

5 out of 5 stars

Excellent starter book. October 2, 2004
Robert H. Schook (Central Michigan)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful

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.

5 out of 5 stars

Everything you need to know -- just add trees! March 18, 2003
Rabbi Yonassan Gershom (Minnesota, USA)
15 out of 15 found this review helpful

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 others have thrown away at construction sites, etc. 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), 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!

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