Honeyflow Farm Blog
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The Scent of Beeswax
Everyone loves the scent of beeswax. Magical and Mysterious. It cleans and freshens the air and it is made from the nectar of flowers.
In addition to the Warm Natural Scent we have many different scented beeswax candles at Honeyflow Farm.
We have candles scented with Essential Oils and also Fragrance Oils.
Pure Essential Oils are more natural and expensive but the scent is much stronger.
The image above shows honeybee colonies with supers piled on top - continue the slide show using the arrows to see what is inside. When I start to see yellow sweet clover growing on the side of the road I know it is time to start adding honey supers to the bees. The colonies are starting to build up and the need space to put honey in. We put...
When the grapes are in bloom - It smells wonderful - a very gentle fragrance from all the blossoms. Bloom time varies a lot from Frontenac blooming earlier and the seedless grape seem to be about a week later. Scroll Through the above images . The slideshow starts with Marquis White Seedless grapes at the "Prebloom" stage - the images ad...
LATE BREAKING NEWS! Due to popularity the Honey Sale has been EXTENDED UNTIL JUNE 30! OUR ANNUAL FALL HONEY SALE - IN MAY? FOR 30 DAYS ONLY! ALL HONEY PRODUCTS ARE ON SALE! No - the grapes are not ripe yet and vineyard is not open, but we thought we would put gallons of honey on sale on our website just like we do at our Sales Stand in September. (...
May in the Honeybee Yards Mid May is when we check all of our Honeybee yards. They are at various farms and orchards that also sell our honey when they are open in the fall. All the new packages that were installed are checked to see if the queen is laying eggs and usually another brood box is added for them to grow into. The wintered over colonies...
These are honeybees that we purchase to replace winter loss. Package bees were previously ordered and have just arrived in mid April to replace winter loss and add to our surviving colonies. Since we have permanent honeybee yards in various orchards, it is very important to have good colonies during bloom time in spring and summer. The image shows ...
