{"id":12935,"date":"2013-09-27T02:00:09","date_gmt":"2013-09-27T09:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=12935"},"modified":"2015-09-23T11:18:22","modified_gmt":"2015-09-23T18:18:22","slug":"backyard-sugarin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/backyard-sugarin\/","title":{"rendered":"Backyard Sugarin&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I really like this small guide because the author emphasizes the cheapest possible way to get up and running.\u00a0While commercial maple sugaring has gone all high tech, with miles of plastic tubing and vacuum pumps,\u00a0a weekend backyarder\u00a0can use\u00a0traditional homemade apparatus to produce a few gallons of golden syrup each season.\u00a0Don&#8217;t need much if you have the minimum trees, scrap wood, outdoor workspace and time. (And BTW, you can get syrup form all kinds of maples in the right climate zone.)<\/p>\n<p>From my few clumsy experiments using an earlier edition of this book, I can tell you it&#8217;s a lot of work for a little syrup &#8212; but because its\u00a0<strong>your<\/strong>\u00a0syrup, it tastes like ambrosia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DIY sweets from trees<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[12],"tags":[2307],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12935"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12935"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12942,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12935\/revisions\/12942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}