The Sugar Season: A Year in the Life of Maple Syrup and One Family's Quest for the Sweetest Harvest

by Douglas Whynott

Book Overview

A year in the life of one New England family as they work to preserve an ancient, lucrative, and threatened agricultural art--the sweetest harvest, maple syrup . . .

How has one of America's oldest agricultural crafts evolved from a quaint enterprise with "sugar parties" and the delicacy "sugar on snow" to a modern industry?

At a sugarhouse owned by maple syrup entrepreneur Bruce Bascom, 80,000 gallons of sap are processed daily...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0306822040
• ISBN13: 9780306822049
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: Da Capo Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.6" x 8.3"