A Kid's Guide to Maple Tapping

A Kid's Guide to Maple Tapping
Author: Julie Fryer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 56
Release: 2014-11-22
Genre:
ISBN: 9781503193291

Written especially for the young sugarmaker and filled with photos, illustrations, and activities, this book takes the reader from tree to table. You'll learn what trees to tap, how to collect the sap, how to make syrup, and the science behind this age-old process. The book also includes a special section for adults with step-by-step instructions on home sugaring.

Guide to Maple Tapping

Guide to Maple Tapping
Author: Julie Fryer
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 90
Release: 2015-07
Genre:
ISBN: 9781514788455

Fun for all ages and a great way to spend time with friends and family, collecting maple sap and making your own maple syrup is easier than you think - especially with this helpful Guide to Maple Tapping. Filled with step-by-step instructions and photos, this book walks you through the entire process from tapping a tree to enjoying your first stack of pancakes. Whether you're a beginner or a lifelong sugarmaker, you'll find essential information including: - Identifying and selecting the best trees. This updated Second Edition also includes a chapter on tapping and making syrup from non-sugar maple trees such as boxelder, birch, and walnut. - Assembling your supplies and prepping your very own sugar shack - Drilling the taphole and multiple ways to collect sap - Filtering instructions and advice on storage - Complete directions and tips for boiling sap into syrup - Recipes and cooking ideas for using pure maple syrup - Interviews, anecdotes, and advice from professional sugarmakers and lifelong hobbyists - Interesting facts, tips, and much, much more!

At Grandpa's Sugar Bush

At Grandpa's Sugar Bush
Author: Margaret Carney
Publisher: Kids Can Press Ltd
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2002-01-03
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781550746716

As his grandpa shows him the traditional way of making maple syrup, a boy finds his bond with nature strengthened.

Sugaring

Sugaring
Author: Jessie Haas
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 32
Release: 1996-10-31
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0688142001

Nora and Gramp are collecting sap from maple trees to make maple syrup. The horses, Bonnie and Stella, are working hard, too, pulling the heavy sap tank through the snow from tree to tree. This third story about Nora and her grandparents brings the beautyof a Vermont farm in early spring vividly to life.

From Maple Tree to Syrup

From Maple Tree to Syrup
Author: Melanie Mitchell
Publisher: Lerner Publications ™
Total Pages: 25
Release: 2017-08-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1541505441

How do trees make sweet maple syrup? Follow each step in the food production cycle—from planting sugar maple trees to pouring syrup on pancakes—in this fascinating book!

Sugaring

Sugaring
Author: Susan Carol Hauser
Publisher: Lyons Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2005
Genre: Maple sugar
ISBN: 9781592283774

Sugaring is the act of collecting maple sap to make maple syrup, an early-spring endeavor that takes place in the Midwest and Northeast United States, and in neighboring areas in Canada. It is a time-honored tradition with Native Americans origins. Sugaring is a beautifully rendered narrative about this soulful activity that slows down time. Interspersed throughout the book's lyrical story are instructions to guide the novice sugarer through every stage of sugaring, from selecting trees and hanging sap buckets to finishing off the syrup. For anyone with an interest in taking up sugaring, everyone who has a maple tree, and all those with nostalgia for the rural landscape, Sugaring will be a joy to discover.

A Kid's Guide to Native American History

A Kid's Guide to Native American History
Author: Yvonne Wakim Dennis
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2009-11-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1613742223

Hands-on activities, games, and crafts introduce children to the diversity of Native American cultures and teach them about the people, experiences, and events that have helped shape America, past and present. Nine geographical areas cover a variety of communities like the Mohawk in the Northeast, Ojibway in the Midwest, Shoshone in the Great Basin, Apache in the Southwest, Yupik in Alaska, and Native Hawaiians, among others. Lives of historical and contemporary notable individuals like Chief Joseph and Maria Tallchief are featured, and the book is packed with a variety of topics like first encounters with Europeans, Indian removal, Mohawk sky walkers, and Navajo code talkers. Readers travel Native America through activities that highlight the arts, games, food, clothing, and unique celebrations, language, and life ways of various nations. Kids can make Haudensaunee corn husk dolls, play Washoe stone jacks, design Inupiat sun goggles, or create a Hawaiian Ma'o-hauhele bag. A time line, glossary, and recommendations for Web sites, books, movies, and museums round out this multicultural guide.

Sugar on Snow

Sugar on Snow
Author: Nan Parson Rossiter
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015-03-17
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781567923704

Brothers Ethan and Seth spend a long day helping their parents gather sap and make maple syrup when March brings the first hint of spring to their New England farm. Includes a legend of how Native Americans first began to make and use maple syrup.

Maple Syrup from the Sugarhouse

Maple Syrup from the Sugarhouse
Author: Laurie Lazzaro Knowlton
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017
Genre:
ISBN:

Kelsey and her father begin tapping sugar maple trees as family and friends gather to help in the process of turning the harvested sap into maple syrup.