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Our daughter Emily 16 and her high school friends helping out.

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Family friend Caitlin Jacobs demonstrates how to make Maple Cotton Candy.

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Beaver River Central School’s FFA Welcomes you to Swiss’er Sweet Maple.

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Visitors taking part in the Coloring Contest.

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BRCS FFA members explain the beginnings to the sugaring process.

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Tours in the sugar house.

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Our future customers are tasting the sap before it's boiled down to delicious Maple Syrup.

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Visitors tour the inside of the shanty

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Sid Zehr explains the boiling process to an interested visitor.

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Group of visitors ready to enter the shanty.

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Buckets hanging from the tree.

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A visitor gets to view the boiling of sap demonstration.

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NYS Commissioner of Agriculture, Patrick Hooker tapping our maple with the Beaver River Central FFA students looking on.

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BRCS FFA group (with our daughter Katie in front center) and Senator Griffo, Assemblyman Aubertine, Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava, and Commissioner of Agriculture, Patrick Hooker.

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Jason and I along with members from the Lewis County Legislature, and representatives from Cornell Cooperative Extension, Senator Griffo, Assemblyman Aubertine, Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava, and Commissioner of Agriculture, Patrick Hooker.

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NYS Commissioner of Agriculture, Patrick Hooker again tapping the tree while the FFA kids look on to see if he is doing it correctly. (smile)

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2007 NYS Maple Queen Courtney Donnolley, Lewis County Maple Queen Tierney Moser, and Lewis County Maple Princess Dana Lyndaker visit the Sugarhouse.

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The Lewis County Maple queen with cotton candy makers Caitlin Jacobs (neighbor), Emily Zehr (daughter), Megan Zehr (cousin)

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Special Visitors Mr. & Mrs. Ray Christensen from the NYS Department of Agriculture with Jason, Barbara & Floyd Zehr.

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Darrel Aubertine (Assemblyman), Jason, Barbara, and Dede Scozzafava (Assemblywoman). Local Assembly people join us to see what Maple Weekend is all about.

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Beaver River FFA guides and visits with the Deputy Secretary of the state of NY.

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Katie age 15 and Lane 10 working the store.

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Our son Lane with cousins Margarett and Moira Fayle.

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Explaining the evaporating process in a packed sugarhouse.

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David and Erin Fayle, niece and nephew of the Zehr’s, love Maple Weekend.

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Our Greeters Daughter Katie Zehr and niece Erin Fayle.

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Jason starts up the evaporator.

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