Michael Suitor, FFA advisor at Alcona High School in Lincoln, Mich., describes his FFA chapter’s maple syrup operation. Each year during maple syrup season, Michael’s students run a sugar shack, doing everything from tapping the trees and gathering the sap to making and bottling the syrup. He says managing the sugar shack gives his students valuable hands-on business skills.

This interview aired on the March 12, 2016 “FFA Today” show on Rural Radio SiriusXM Channel 147.