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Contents
1. Drawn from Wood
2. Ye Olde Confectionary
Craft
3. Family Tree Gallery
4. The Secret Life of
Trees
5. For Fun, Profit & Hard
Work
6. Do-it-Yourself
7. Maple Delights
Illustrated by Beverly Duncan
In northeastern
North
America thrives a tree
unrivaled in
beauty, form, and
function. Its
stout trunk and graceful
branches
produce fine close-grained wood
that is perfect for tools, furniture, and firewood. Its spreading
crown,
thickly draped in hand-shaped leaves, offers a vivid palette of
changing
colors to the sky and a sheltering security to numerous woodland
creatures. And from its very depth issues a sweet sap that forms the
sole ingredient of one of the world’s most appealing natural
delicacies.
I invite you to
discover more of the remarkable qualities and special
gifts of this
family of trees. Follow the footsteps of both bygone and
present
practitioners — and discover the easy step-by-step
process —
as you learn the
lore, tap the trees, secure the sap, separate the
sugar, and taste
the treat. This is one book with which you can truly
enjoy the fruits
of your labor. Now that’s a sweet deal!
Free downloads (.pdf) Buy the book:
Chapter 5 excerpt
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Identification Pages
Barnes & Noble
Sugar Maple
Powell's
Black Maple
Booksense
Red Maple
Silver Maple Book Reviews
Box Elder
Norway Maple
Storey Publishing
Bigleaf Maple
www.storey.com
ISBN 978-1-60342-735-7
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