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The sugar season : a year in the life of maple syrup, and one family's quest for the sweetest harvest

Douglas Whynott (Author)
Follows one New England family as they struggle to preserve an ancient, lucrative, and threatened agricultural art -- the sweetest harvest, maple syrup
eBook, English, 2014
Da Capo Press, Boston, MA, 2014
1 online resource (viii, 279 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
9780306822056, 0306822059
868488316
The extent of the shock is equivalent to the rate of the flow
The public still thinks we're doing it in the mythic way
Earliest boil ever
Straight at it and all out
The first full-time sugarmaker
A gallon every 22 seconds
A sugarhouse full of sound and everybody coming around
Short, sweet, and of high quality
Here for the history
The sugar machine
You need a mountain
Why be competitors when you can be cooperators?
The forecast
Aren't you afraid, Mr. Bureau?
The sugar camps of St. Aurelie
The route of the sugarmakers
Seasons of change
Summer in March
Sugar on snow
Most of Maine is downstairs