How to Make Maple Syrup From Gathering Sap to Marketing Your Own Syrup. A Storey BASICS® Title

Third-generation syrup makers Alison and Steven Anderson show you how to collect sap using a tree-friendly tubing system and then cook, package, and even market your own syrup. With expert advice for first-time bottlers, the Andersons share their passion with a contagious excitement that is as inspiring as a bowl of sugar on snow. 

Alison Anderson,co-author of How to Make Maple Syrup, is a writer, mostly of children’s and young adult fiction. Anderson and her husband, Steve, run Anderson’s Maple Syrup and live on their sugarbush near Cumberland, Wisconsin, with their two children who want to be syrup makers when they grow up!

Steven Anderson is the third generation to run his family’s business, Anderson’s Maple Syrup & Supplies, near Cumberland, Wisconsin. The family is considered “Maple Syrup Royalty” and Steven’s father, Norman, was inducted into the American Maple Hall of Fame in 2009.

Contents

Preface

Chapter 1: The History of Maple Syrup

Chapter 2: Identifying and Tapping Maple Trees

Chapter 3: Gathering Sap

Chapter 4: Cooking Sap

Chapter 5: Filtering and Bottling Syrup

Chapter 6: Cooking on an Evaporator

Chapter 7: Collecting Sap with Tubing

Chapter 8: End-of-Season Care

Chapter 9: Sugarhouse Considerations

Chapter 10: Grading and Selling Your Maple Syrup

Chapter 11: Making Other Maple Products

Glossary

Resources

Index

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