4th Generation Syrup Making

We pride ourselves on making the best quality syrup.

2020 Varieties:

•Sugar Drip

•Dale

•Iowa Sweet

We are happy to share our family tradition and the history of how we make sweet sorghum syrup.

2019 Annual Sorghum Festival

Vavra Family and Friends unite to make sorghum syrup once again after 20 years.

ABOUT VAVRA SORGHUM FARM

Vavra Sorghum Farm was created to carry on the Vavra Family tradition of sweet sorghum syrup making.

My great grandfather started this tradition over 80 years ago... followed by my grandparents and then my father, Jerome Vavra, in 1967, ( the year I was born). This tradition carried on for many years until around 1999.

After 20 years, in 2019, KJ and Patty Vavra decided to carry on the tradition again for the next generation of family and friends!

Every year, in late September / early October, we hold a 4-day event where we harvest the sweet sorghum cane by hand and run it through a civil war era sorghum press. Then we cook the juice into a sweet, rich syrup that we enjoy with our breakfast each morning!

31404 Elmtree Rd
Treynor, IA 51575

Phone: (402) 203-4171

vavrakj@gmail.com

2020 ANNUAL SORGHUM FESTIVAL OCT. 1-4